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Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences, fol. -

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  1. subditus tenetur Resi ad Obedientiam, ita Rex te-( Was broad. This srange Disproporrion berween
  2. netur subdito ad Prorectionem. And in another the Lenethand Breadthosthe coloured Spectrum
  3. Place, Duplex est Lisamen inter Rezem C5) popu
  4. lum, _c. Vid. 7 Rep. CalvynS Casc. = WhicH
  5. Passages some Wwill hare EO BC AN expre(S AuThO-
  6. thorier in Law co prove che greac Original Con
  7. tract berween che Kins os England and che Peo
  8. LTGTTE, is used ro sienisie Threc Thines;
  9. F. Thac Senlation erhich ariles in us From the
  10. Vieu oE any Luminous Object, 25 che Sun
  11. a StaE, Or 2 C andlC.
  12. puc him uxon sereral Thoughus; bur ac last he
  13. Thoughe oF this Experimentum Crucis. Ilc rook
  14. tivo Boards, and Placed one close behind che
  15. Prism ac che Window, (o chacche Lighe passine
  16. chroush a mall IIole purpolels made inir, mighe
  17. FaH on anocher Board placed nearer che WV aII, a1
  18. about r2 Foor distance From cheformer; and
  19. havins al(0 a small FTole in ic t00, For Pome OF
  20. the incidene Lighero pals chrough. Behind chis
  21. Board he placed a second Prilmm, chac the RaYS
  22. 2. Lishe signisies the Cause oF that Sensation pastins chrough it and che ruo Ioles in che
  23. in us, 25 ic is an Action or Properer existins ir
  24. the Luminous Body.
  25. 3. By Ehis Nord some also understand che
  26. Action oF che Medium interposed between us
  27. and the Luminous Object; and others, that the
  28. Train of Rays, wrhich comins Forth trom chence,
  29. prerades the Medium betore ic can come to aF
  30. Fect our Fyes.
  31. Lishe is undoubredy produced by Morion;
  32. buE Tet TIS nOc erery Notion thac will produce
  33. LighE. The Learned DF. FT. in his MicroCraphy,
  34. Boards, mishc be asain retracted betore ic came
  35. toche WalI. Then he curnd che trM Prism ac
  36. the Windon RowIr about ies Axis, (0 as 1o makre
  37. the Screral Parrs of the Image cast on the second
  38. Board successirely pass chroush cheFlole in it,
  39. char (0 he mistre obserre eo what Places on the
  40. Vall the second Priim nould retract chem. And
  41. xhenhe larr plainlr, by the Variation of those Pla-
  42. ces, that ihe Lighe tendins to that End os the
  43. Imase comards which the Refraction of the first
  44. Prism vas made, did in the second Prism susser a
  45. P. 55. judses the Nocion thac produces Lighe Refraction considerably, the Listr tendins 10 the
  46. Oughe ro have these Requisires: T. Thac ic be orher End. And (0 che true C ause oF che L engch
  47. exccedine quick, litre rhe NIOriOnS OF Fermen-
  48. tation and Pucrefaction; (as vou sec in Shining
  49. Pickles and ROtten WVOod) 2. IE must DC a
  50. OF thar lmase as derected to bc no ocher than
  51. chac Lishe consists of Rays differently refransible;
  52. Wrhich, wichour respect 1o any Difference in
  53. Vibrative Morion, and also hare ies Vibrations cheir Incidence, evere accordins to cheir Degrees
  54. exceedins MOrE. This he concludes From che ot Retransibilier rransmitted rovards divers
  55. stinins oF Diamonds, Wwhen chafed or rubbed.
  56. Parts of ihe WVall. From Whence he justly con-
  57. A5 to the Trajection oF Lishe chroush che cluded, char Licht it sels mas an Teterocencous
  58. Medium, ihe most frcely rhar can be, he well Mixture os disserentiy Refransible os Rays. Phi
  59. obserres, F. Thac che Medium must be suscep-
  60. tible and imparrible oF ehis Norion. 2. That
  61. los. Frans. LV. 80
  62. FTe demonstrares also, That Cince Light is al-
  63. the Parrs oF it must be TTomoseneous. 3. Thac ars propasated in RighE LineS, iE CanNOL POL
  64. cheir Consticution be such, thar Lighe may be sibly consist in Action onlY, (Prop. 42, 42. Lib
  65. propasared chrongh them as soon as postible.
  66. Tho he aNerES, thacir ic can by no means bc In-
  67. Rantaneous; and seems ((0 lons 250) Fulls la
  68. cistied, thar Lighe requires much che same Pime
  69. FOr itS Prajection, a5 MIr. Romer Found it a(Ter
  70. vards to do by che Eclipses oF Furiters Satet
  71. lites. Sec Philos. Trans. IV. 136. P. 893.
  72. The Incomparable NIr. IS. Nemton allos
  73. vich orher AAronOmers, about L0 Minutes ol
  74. an ITour For che Morion ot a Rar oF Lighetrom
  75. che Sun eothe Farth. Princip. P. 23r.
  76. Ise Found atto bs Plam and repeated Experi-
  77. ments, thac the RayS OF Lighe beins in che AIE,
  78. and passine near or chrough the Angles of any
  79. Princip. Phil. Mathem.) 25 che Cartesans do
  80. aRCFF.
  81. In anocher Place oF the Tranfactions he gires
  82. the Follovins Definitions and PropOsitiOnS.
  83. DE FFNFFZONS.
  84. T. Domozeneat, Similac, or Vnisorm Liehr, is
  85. chac Whose Rars are equallr retrangible.
  86. 2. Fleteroseneal Lisht, is chat Whose RaYs are
  87. unequallr retransible.
  88. Noce, Fhere are buE Three ARections OF LiGhE
  89. in erhich he obserred iis Rars 10 ditser, viz
  90. Refransibility, Restexibility, and Colour: Anc
  91. opacous or rransparent Body, (Tuch a5 Pieces thole Rays wrhich agree in Refransibility, aoree
  92. ot Gold or Silver Coin, or square Pieces ot
  93. also in the ocher cro, and cheretore may vell
  94. chole Mecals, the Fdges oF Rnires, or oF bro- be detined Fromogeneal; especialls since Men
  95. ken Cla(5, (9c.) are alvars bent or incurvated
  96. corvards such Bodies, 25 if cher eere attracted
  97. by chem; and of chese, those Rays wrhich pa(s
  98. nearest the Fdges, are most incurvated.
  99. And FPOI ACHCC IL WIH LOlOW, That rhe Re.
  100. Fraction oF the Rays oF Lighr (especially ot
  101. those wotrich Fall near the Fdges ot Bodies, is nOr
  102. made just at che Poine oF Incidence, buc 2 licrle
  103. betore the Rars enter inco the denser Medium.
  104. and a liule alter ther are sorren wichin ic.
  105. The lame Perton Found also by curtous LPC.
  106. utuallr call chole Things Fromozeneal, wwhich are
  107. So in all other Onalicies chat come under cheir
  108. Knontedse; cho in ocher Oualicies thac cheir
  109. Knomledse exrends nocro, chiere may portibly
  110. be some Feterogenity.
  111. 3. Those Colours he calls Simple, Or TTomo-
  112. seneal, which are exhibited by Homosenect
  113. Licht.
  114. 4. And chole Compound or Teterogeneal,
  115. ertich are extribiced by Hererozeneat Licht.
  116. 5. Difterent Colours he calls nor only che
  117. rimenes made wich erisms, chat che viridy co. more eminent Species, Red, Zellow, Creen
  118. loured Tmase transmitred chrough a FTole, in a Blew, Purple, buc all orher the minucest Cra
  119. darkened Room, opposire ro che Sun- beams, and darions; uch aftex the Tame manner, thac nOL
  120. alt c a rtice Wali mas tiretimeo no tené de re l outs cle more cruinent Deose in Mutets, voi

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