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Opticks 37Prop. Xiv

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Literature · Science

Opticks 37

Prop. Xiv

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_Those Surfaces of transparent Bodies, which if the Ray be in a Fit of Refraction do refract it most strongly, if the Ray be in a Fit of Reflexion do reflect it most easily._
For we shewed above, in Prop. 8. that the cause of Reflexion is not the impinging of Light on the solid impervious parts of Bodies, but some other power by which those solid parts act on Light at a distance. We shewed also in Prop. 9. that Bodies reflect and refract Light by one and the same power, variously exercised in various circumstances; and in Prop. 1. that the most strongly refracting Surfaces reflect the most Light: All which compared together evince and rarify both this and the last Proposition.
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Newton — Opticks (Isaac Newton) (1704). Public Domain. Isaac Newton, Opticks; public domain in the US; text from Project Gutenberg #33504. Source