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Opticks 38Prop. Xv

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Literature · Science

Opticks 38

Prop. Xv

NewtonEnglish
_In any one and the same sort of Rays, emerging in any Angle out of any refracting Surface into one and the same Medium, the Interval of the following Fits of easy Reflexion and Transmission are either accurately or very nearly, as the Rectangle of the Secant of the Angle of Refraction, and of the Secant of another Angle, whose Sine is the first of 106 arithmetical mean Proportionals, between the Sines of Incidence and Refraction, counted from the Sine of Refraction._
This is manifest by the 7th and 19th Observations.
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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