Excerpt: ...focal point, until a distance equal to that of F from the lens is reached, when the rays emerge from the glass in a parallel pencil. The rays now come to a focus no longer, and there can be no image. If O be brought nearer than the focal distance, the rays would diverge after passing through the lens. RELATIVE POSITIONS OF OBJECT AND IMAGE. Fig. 110.
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