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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 17

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  1. Scholium. The lame chinos succeed normichstandinq chac
  2. Tome oF che Circumstances be raried: as in che trst Px-
  3. periment wrhien che Prism and Paper are any nars inclined
  4. co the Horizon, and in boch irtien coloured Lines arc
  5. drann upon verr black Paper. Buc in che Delcription ot
  6. chele Experimenes, Phare sec donn Cuch Circumstances
  7. by irhich cither che Phaenomenon miohe be rendred more
  8. conspicuous, or a Norice mighe more casily ery them, or
  9. by irtrich I did ery chem ontr. The Came chins Ihare
  10. otren done in the follomins Experiments: Concerning all
  11. irhich chis one Admonition may luffice. Nou From chese
  12. Fixverimenes ic Follons noc thac all che Lighe ot che blen
  13. is more Retranoible chan all che Lighe ot che red; FOr
  14. boch Lighes are mixed ot Rars differeney Retrangible,
  15. Sothat in the red chere are Lome Rays noc lels Retrangible
  16. than those ot che blen, and in che blen chere are lome
  17. Rars noc more Retransible chan thole ot thered; BUE
  18. chese Rays in Proportion co che Whole Lighe are buc ferr,
  19. and serve co diministr che Frene of the Experimene, bue
  20. are noc able co destror it. For il che red and blen Co-
  21. lours ivere more dilure and weak, che distance ot cheIma-
  22. ses mould be lels than an lnch and an halt; and it they
  23. vere more intense and Full, that distance mould be greater,
  24. 25 will appear hereatter. Phele Experiments may suftice
  25. For che Colours ot Dacural Bodies. For in the Colours
  26. made by che Retraction ot Prisms this Propolicion will
  27. appear by che Experiments which are no to tollon in che
  28. nexe Provosition.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 17. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0027?run=74