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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 15

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  2. Ansle be curned domnmard, che Image ot the P’aper vill
  3. Be retracted domnmard suppose co dc, and che bler halt.
  4. ill be retracted lover eo dr chan the red haIF is EO PE.
  5. Exper. 2. Abouc che atorelaid Paper, whose erro halts
  6. vere painced over rich red and bleu, and ihich iras siH
  7. like chin Pastboard, I lapped sereral cimes a Pender chred
  8. ot very black Silk, in such manner chac che several ParES
  9. ot che chred mixhe appear upon che Colours like lo mans
  10. black Liries dramn over chem, or like long and Pender
  11. dark Stradons cast uxon chem. I mighe hare dramn black.
  12. Lines wich a Pen, Buc che chreds vere smaller and bctter
  13. detincd. This Paper chus coloured and lined I set againct
  14. 2 Wall perpendiculartr cocheHorizon, (ochat one oFchc
  15. Colours mighe sand co che righe hand and che other to
  16. the letr. Close betore che Paper at the contine of the Co-
  17. lours belou I placed a Candle co illuminate the Paper
  18. Arongly: For the Experimene as cried in che Nighe.
  19. The Aame of che Candle reached up to the lorver edge ot
  20. che Paper, or a very licele hipher. Then ac the distance ot
  21. Six Feet and onc or ero Tnches trom che Paper upon che
  22. Floor I crected a glass Lens tour lnches and a quarter
  23. broad, which mighe collect che Rays cominq trom chc
  24. sereral Points of the Paper, and make chem conrerge to-
  25. Wards (o manr ocher Poines ac the lame distance Ot sIX
  26. Fcet and one or erro Inches on che ocher side of che Lens,
  27. and (0 form che Imaxe ot the coloured Paper upon a whice
  28. Paper placed chere; afcer che same manner thaL 2 L enS aE
  29. a hole in a Windor casts the Images of Objects abroad
  30. uxon a Sticet of whice Paper in a dark Room. The atore-
  31. Caid irhice Paper, crected perpendicular co che HOrizOn
  32. and to the Rays itich Fell uxon ic from the Lens, Imored
  33. Cometimes tomards che Lens, Pometimes From ic, to find

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 15. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0025?run=74