# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com # Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0193 # Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0193?run=74 # Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71) # Folio - , page id 806933011:0193 # Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=806933011&page=193 # Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/806933011/jpgs/default/00000193.jpg # Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 107 lines, status machine # Lines: 107 recognised, mean confidence 0.90 # Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. # Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text. # Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote". # After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line. Boc, and are inserred here also ac. ehie desire ot cheie Autior, che Inpenious AC. Joln Pertes OF O18 Swinsord in Worcesterstire. An Absract os M. Nemionis Doctrine concern. ine Liehe and Co Durs. F. Lixhe contilts oF an intinire numbet DE Rays Medium. 2. Fach Ray accordine AD irs deprec DE RCtraN: sibilies, when so retractec, axpears r0 che FyC OF a disterene C olour. 3. The leas Retranxible RayS appeAE ot 3 deep Scarter, che most retrangible appear oE 3 Violet Blue, the intermediare proccedins Fromr Scaptet 10 Vellowisi. ihen 10 liehe Creen, and 10 4. The Colours ariurie trom che diffecent RC in 2 dark loom by illuminarins chose Bodies wich fransibilicy ot Lishr are noc onty the more nored Vellow co Cireen, (3c. differing as che deprees ot cher are most brisse and vivid in che Lighe ot cheir also indetinire incermediare deerees of Sound 5. Whirenels (luch as the Suns Lighe appears) illastrared, buc ver most luminous in Red, and (o containins aIl chese deprees ot Retransibiliey, is Bise appearech inditterenchy ol any Colour wich consequenty made up oE all che aborementioned 6. Simple oe Hlomoxencal Colours are luch as any Colour, bur most copicusly chole indued wirh are produced by Hlomogereal Liehe or Rays, char Red; and conlequenety, wrhen illustrared wich have che lame degree ot Retransibiliey; and mixt Colours are luch a5 are produced by Rays oF dit- q. Rays ot the lame Retransibilicy producethe Tame Colour, Which Colour is not alcerable by re- Deaced Retractions, only made more ArOnS Or 8. AII Bodies appear ot this or thac Colour 2c. Bodies. And thac this is che inrire and adequare cordins a5 che Surtaces are adapted eo reRect only Mhe RayS OE suct a Colour or (ar leaB) in more plencys chan ehe rest. Experiments for Consirmation os ehe forecoins Doctrine. Experiment Y JILMMIBACHTA LAEMS WIEA LmIaE Or Ancompounded Lixhe: For chen ihey appear ot châc Coiour onls erich wven cher are illuminateu, bil sel in one Polition more rivid and lumineus cant sn anocher. accoral y a5 chey arc dilpoled more et scls10 Fefleet or transimir che incident Coiour. +2. From whence allo is manitest che rcdlon Ot Wedsc litie cranspurent Vellels, Ailied ele one wich a Hec, ihe orber wwirh a Blue LIquor; namely; chac chouph chey avere severally cranspa rent enoueh, ser borh cogecher became opake For iE one trantmicced only Rec, and the orher on Iy Blue, no Kays could pa(s Throneh BOTh. 13. Thac che Colours. OF all nacural Bodies have no ocher Origin chan chis, etiac ther are variousty qualthied ro reltect one lorr ot Ligtr in greacer ro BIMC. Pleney chan anocher. And chis was experimented that means any Body may be made to appear ot che incermediare deorees of Red 10 Vello, ot any Colour: Fher hare chere no appropriare Co- omn Day a lighie Colour. Minium appearerh whichare as distinet ditterene sounds as che ocher chere of any Coour inditterener, wich wrhich ris hich ris illustraced, but yet mot lamus in Colours Bluc; and cheretore Minium restecteth Rays ot Day. lighe, chac is, Wwich all Pores ot Rays promi scuousty b ended, chole qualitied vrirh Red MalI ferent Retransibility abound most in che reffected Lighr, and by cheir Prevalence cause ic ro appear ot chac Colour. And For che lame reason Bise refectine Blue most co- viousty Mall appear Blue by chc excels ot chole tainc as the Rays are unired or scacrered Kays in us reflected Lighe; and che likre ot ocher cause ot cheir Colours, is manifest, because chey have no pover ro change or alter che Colours ol any TOrt OF RayS incidenE apAFE, buE put on alI Co. lours inditterenely, wich which chez arc inlighened Thele chines being lo, ic can be no longer dis pured, Whecher there be Colours in che Dark, nor uhether chey be the Oualicies ot che Objects ve sec; no nor perhaps, Wwhether Light be a Body For since Colours are che Oualities of Licht, ha- vino its Rays tor cheir incire and immediare Sub- sustain anocher; wrhich in effect is to call ic sub- stance; Wve Mould noc knou Bodiestrom Substan-(Prilm, whose Side PK is near parallel ro the side ces, vere it nor for their sensible Oualities, and Comechins elic, we have 25 800d ia deliere ehac eo be a Substarice als0. Thus tar wene chis wondertul Man, aslone since asthe XCar 1675; as youmay lee more ar larse in ehe Philosoph. Transact. N. And as himselt ac- quaines us (vich his alual Nloderty) in his excel- Dene Frearise oF Opcieks; jult nou publistied; and come ro my Flands While chis pare is compotine ac the Press; Where etie Reader will meer vich atmi ple Saristaction as eo all Parrs oF che admirable Doctrine oF Light and Coloirs. And chac rhe Woeld may sec rhac the Accoune tie (0 lons agoe puiblisied ot this Fheory, Was boch inrelligible and ceccainly crue, I trave subjoined che subsequene Eapesinenlo, rhieh canie 1o My Cailo a leal 3 an unexpected Experiment, wrhich Mr. Stook in rishe lined and parallel, bur of ditterent deprees hiis Mlicrosiaphy relares co hare macie wich cwo) ot Retransibilies utien imcerins wirt a different uncompounded Liehr ot divers Colours; For by Colours ot Red, Vellon, Green, Bluc, but al(0 aII Lour, buE ever appea oF che Colour oP the Lixhr Cound trom Grare co Acure; in which rhere are cast upon eliem, vur ver rich rhis ditterence, char noc only che Noces ot common denomination, bui Lhe freac lxperimene on which ME. Nenion erounds his Doctrine, (and etrich he calIS Lixpe. rimentum Crucis) is aster ehis manner: B F. atia FG are tro Boards abour 4 or 5 Yards distance is a Prism expoled ro the Sun, IR C iS anocher BC oF the orher, and receivine rhe RaySD H re ject, hon can ve chink chole Rays Oualiries also, havins in each ot chem a lierle round FIole at D untels onc Oualiey may be che Subject of and and FI, oF abour Z oF an Inch Diamerer; ABC che Principal ot thole beins non tound due ro tracts them ro Falloni a Paper nm.