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Opticks 39Prop. Xvi

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Literature · Science

Opticks 39

Prop. Xvi

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_In several sorts of Rays emerging in equal Angles out of any refracting Surface into the same Medium, the Intervals of the following Fits of easy Reflexion and easy Transmission are either accurately, or very nearly, as the Cube-Roots of the Squares of the lengths of a Chord, which found the Notes in an Eight_, sol, la, fa, sol, la, mi, fa, sol, _with all their intermediate degrees answering to the Colours of those Rays, according to the Analogy described in the seventh Experiment of the second Part of the first Book._
This is manifest by the 13th and 14th 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