COMPLETE [PHYSICS] Opticks by Isaac Newton - ava

Post by **Availle** » January 16th, 2012, 11:02 am

Pam/Rapunzelina, thanks for your great work on this - yet again!

Pam, Section 19 does not contain a table, the table is for observation 7 in Section 20... However, here are the first two lines of said table, as I'm pretty sure you're going to read a bit further

Angle of Inc. on the Air. Angle of Refr. into the Air. Diam of the Ring. Thickness of the Air.
Deg. Min. Deg. Min.
00 00 00 00 10 10
06 26 10 00 10-1/13 10-2/13

Please read it like this:

Angle of Incidence on the Air zero degrees, zero minutes. Angle of Refraction into the Air zero degrees, zero minutes. Diameter of the ring 10 Parts, Thickness of the Air, 10 Parts (*).
Angle of Indicence on the Air 6 degrees 26 minutes. Angle of Refraction into the Air 10 degrees, zero minutes. Diameter of the ring 10 -1/13th parts. Thickness of the air 10-2/13 parts.
Angle of Incidence.....
Meaning, for every row please repeat the column headers at the appropriate place so that we know where we are when listening. Do this for every table you come across.

(*) The parts come from directly below the table, where he says: In the third Column the Diameter of any colour'd Ring at those Obliquities is expressed in Parts,... Although it is not mentioned in table proper, I think it should be added to make it a bit clearer to the listener (10 WHAT???)

pkrantz · Post by **pkrantz** » January 16th, 2012, 12:07 pm

Gotcha - I had copied a 'big' section from the beginning of section 19 and obviously included some 20 within it, assuming the table was in 19. I will get it broken down when ready to record. That is, IF I record - just joking. I'm sure I'll continue at least for a while yet. I thought for sure I'd need a break before this from all this dry stuff. I'm finding out I'm probably better at this kind of reading instead of stories requiring different character voices. Not so good at changing my voice for those, although I find I can do sarcasm within stories pretty good. Maybe that says something about myself - so easy to be sarcastic! And it is fun to read (without voice) a good funny story.

I'd offered to do another short piece on another project while waiting for your response, but I'll be right back here after.

Post by **Availle** » January 16th, 2012, 12:33 pm

I probably should not tell you this...

...but there's no need for character voices if you don't like to do them. There are plenty of listeners out there who prefer a "straight" reading of novels and short stories.

smitaj · Post by **smitaj** » January 16th, 2012, 6:46 pm

I am volunteering to read s 25 of this work .
Lets see how I get on.
Andrew

Post by **Availle** » January 17th, 2012, 11:45 am

Hi Andrew, and welcome to Librivox!

I have given Section 25 to you, enjoy! The finished recording will be about 20 minutes long.

This is a quite ambitious first reading, because of the topic and because I'd like this reading to be word-perfect, so no deviations from the text are allowed in your recording. The first post gives you all the info you'll need wrt intro/outro/filenames/uploading...

I have seen that your test has been approved, but one little thing still before you start: Please let me know under what name you'd like to appear in our catalog. This can be your forumname, your real name... whatever you choose. We can also link to a webpage/blog if you like. Your personal librivox page - to keep track of all your sections - is here: http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=7065

Enjoy your time here!

pkrantz · Post by **pkrantz** » January 19th, 2012, 12:17 pm

Howdy!

I'm sorry but can you please replace Section 18 with this new one? When copying the text of 19 over my section 18 text, I saw that I had forgotten to put in the author's name at start of reading

(All previous are AOK) Thanks so much.

Duration: 19:16
http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ava/opticks_18_newton.mp3

pkrantz · Post by **pkrantz** » January 19th, 2012, 12:53 pm

Here's Section 19.

Duration: 18:13
http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ava/opticks_19_newton.mp3

And now on to Section 20 with the icky tables?

Post by **Rapunzelina** » January 20th, 2012, 7:28 am

I must have been in momentum there and missed that

Thank you for pointing it out, Pamela! PL of Section 19 coming soon

Kaffen · Post by **Kaffen** » January 20th, 2012, 11:30 am

I'll sign on for sections 35, 38, & 39, please.

Post by **Availle** » January 20th, 2012, 12:02 pm

Pam, on to section 20 - I hope the table won't be too icky

Mark, nice to see you here - I've entered your claims! Have fun - note the word perfect proofing please!

pkrantz · Post by **pkrantz** » January 21st, 2012, 11:30 am

I might as well also sign up for 21, 22, 23 to finish up that group!

Post by **Availle** » January 21st, 2012, 11:38 am

Goodness, Pam, I thought you'd never ask!

All yours, enjoy!

pkrantz · Post by **pkrantz** » January 22nd, 2012, 7:07 pm

Here's Section 20.

Duration: 18:07
http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ava/opticks_20_newton.mp3

This is an edited msg - Duration number corrected!

Post by **Availle** » January 23rd, 2012, 1:48 am

Pam, can you please check if you really read the whole thing? It says in the MW: Book II Part I - Observations 7 - 16 with about 2500 words, and 8 minutes for this is... very short (it should be at least twice as much, not counting the table which will take extra time). Maybe you mean 18 minutes?

Thanks!

pkrantz · Post by **pkrantz** » January 23rd, 2012, 10:35 am

Yes, I'm sorry - I should have said 18:07 instead of 8:07. I have edited the original msg above - thank you!