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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 35

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  1. wrhen ic was illuminated wich the red ot one spectrum and
  2. decp violet oF che other, (0 as by the mixture of thole
  3. Colours to appear all over purple, I riered che Paper,
  4. first ac a less distance, and then ac a oreater, chrouon a
  5. chird Prilm; and as I ene from che Paper, che retracted
  6. lnage chereot became more and more dirided by che un-
  7. equal Retraction of che euo mixed Colours, and ac lenoth
  8. parted into ruo dictinet Images, a red onc and a riolet onc,
  9. Whereot che violer as furthest from che Paper, and there-
  10. fore Cuffered che prearest Retraction. And irhen thac Prilm
  11. ac the Windon which cast the violet on the Paper WaS ta-
  12. Len avay, che violet Image disappeared; but when the ocher
  13. Prism ras calcen avar che red ranistred: wrhich Phews chac
  14. thele evo Tmages ivere noching else chan che Lighes ot che
  15. eiro Prilms rhich had been intermired on che purple Pa-
  16. Per, buc ivere parted again by their unequal Refractions
  17. made in the chird Prism chrouph wtrich che PapeF WaS
  18. vierred. This also ras obserrable chac it one of the
  19. Prisins at che Windor, suppose thac ihich cast che violet
  20. On ChC PapeF, WaS Furned abOVE iEs AXis eo malce aII che
  21. Colours in this order, Violet, Indigo, Blew, Orcen, Vel-
  22. loir, Oranse, Red, Fall successirelr on the Paper from chat
  23. Prilm, che violet lmase changed Colour accordinely, anc
  24. in changins Colour came nearer co the red onc, uneil irhien
  25. ic ras also red cher boch became tully coincident.
  26. Iplaced allo erro paper circles very near one anocher,
  27. che one in che red Liehe ot onc Prism, and che ocher in
  28. the violet Liohe ot che ocher. The circles vere cach ot
  29. ehem an Tuch in Diamecer, and behind chem che WV aII Was
  30. dark chac the Fxperimene miphe noc be disturbed by any
  31. Liohe coming trom chence. These circles chus illuminared,
  32. lriemed chrouoh a Prism P0 held chac che Retraction miohe
  33. bemade corrards che red circle, and as I wene from them
  34. chey

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 35. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0045?run=74