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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 34

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The machine reads it as

  1. -
  2. turcher when wich Crcen, and Further when wich Blewr, and
  3. 50 yec turcher oH when illuminated rich Indigo, and tur-
  4. chest wrhen rich decp Violet.. Which plainly Chews, chat
  5. che Liohes oE several Colours are more and more Retran-
  6. sible one than anocher, in chis order oE cheir Colours, RCd,
  7. Orange, Tello, Crcen, Blewr, Indiso, decp Violec; and
  8. (0 prores 25 ell che tirst Propolition as the second.
  9. I caused allo che coloured SpectrumS P Y and MIW
  10. made in a dark Chamber by che Retractions ot emo Prilms
  11. to lre in a rixhe Line end eo end, 25 ras delcribed above
  12. in che fitch Experimene, and rieming chem chrouoh a chird
  13. Prilm held Parallet co cheir lenoth, cher appeared no longer
  14. in a riphe Line, bur became broken trom one another, 25
  15. ther are represented at pt and mn, the riolet end m of che
  16. Spectrum mn being by a greater Retraction translated
  17. Furcher From ies former place MI. Tchanthe red end t oF che.
  18. Other Spectrum pt.
  19. Fio. 20. Iturcher caused chole cuo Spectrums P T and IN tO
  20. become co.incident in an inverted order ot cheir Colours,
  21. che red end ot cach Falling on the violet end ot the ocher;
  22. 25 cher are reprelented in the oblons Figure P TMIN;
  23. and ehen rieminq chem chronoh a Prilm D) HI held P’aral-
  24. sel cocheir lenoh, chey appcared noc co- incident as when
  25. viered wich che nakced Ere, buc in che form et evo di-
  26. Rinet. Spectrums pF and mn crostns one anocher in che
  27. middle atter the manner ot che lecter Z. Which CheWVS
  28. chac the red ot che one spectrum and violet ot che orher,
  29. erhich ivere co. incident ac P N and VIY, beins parted
  30. trom one anocher by a greater Retraction oF the violet tO
  31. p and m chan ot the red co n and t, do differ in degrees ot
  32. Retrangibilier.
  33. lilluminated also a licele circular piece of white P’aper
  34. all over rich che Liglus ot boch Prilms incermixed, and
  35. Whem
  36. F1g. 17.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 34. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0044?run=74