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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 33

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  1. ordered the Prisms and Paper (0, chat che red Colour ot
  2. onc Image mighe Fall directly upon one hale ot the Paper,
  3. and che violet colour ot the ocher Image uxon the ocher
  4. halt oF che Came Paper; (0 chat the Paper appeared oF cwo
  5. Colours, red and violet, much afcer che manner of che
  6. Painced Paper in che first and second Experimenes. Then
  7. rich a black Cloch I corered the W all Behind the Paper,
  8. chac no Lighe miphe be reflected From ic eo dicturb che
  9. Experimene, and riemino che Paper chrouph a chird Prilm
  10. held parallel co ic, I Pa chac halt ot ic nrhich mas illumi-
  11. naced by che Violetliohe co bc dirided From che other
  12. hale by a orcacer Retraction, especially wrhen l vene a g00d
  13. ay oH Erom ehe PapeT. FOT When I viewed iC EOO RCaL
  14. at hand, che ero hals of the Paper did nor appear fully
  15. dirided Crom one anocher, but seemed contiguous ac one
  16. oF cheir Anoles likce che painted Paper in che trst Expe-
  17. riment. Which also happened irhen the PapeF WaS EOO
  18. broad.
  19. Somecimes instead ot che Paper J uled a whice Thred,
  20. aud chis appeared chrouph che Prism divided inco enO P2-
  21. rallel Threds as is reprelented in che ioch Pigure, Where Fiz. 19.
  22. DC denores the Thred illuminaced wich violet Lighe
  23. From D eo F and wich red Liohe From F c0C, and de f8
  24. arc che pares of the Thred seen by Retraction. IF one halt
  25. oE che Thred be constanely illuminaced wich red, and che
  26. ocher hals be illuminaced rich all che Colours successirel,
  27. Cirtrich may be done by caulins one of che Prisms co be
  28. cured abouc ues Axis whilse che ocher remains unmoved)
  29. ehis ocher hale in viemino che Thred chrouxh che Pribm.
  30. ill appear in a continued righe Linc wich che Arst haIF
  31. Wwhen illuminaced ich red, and begin co be a licele diri-
  32. ded from ic when illuminated rich Orange, and remove
  33. Furcher trom ic irhen illuminaced wirh Vello, and Ailt
  34. Furcher

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 33. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0043?run=74