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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 36

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  1. they came nearer and nearer cogecher, and ac length be
  2. came co-incident; and atcermards trhen Lvenc sil Furcter
  3. Of, cher parced again in a contrary order, che violet b7 2
  4. orcacer Retraction beins carried berond che red.
  5. Exper. 8. In Sumer wtien che SunS LIGHE UTES CO
  6. besrongest, Lplaced a Pritur ac ehic hole oF che Windon-
  7. MHHE, 25 in che chird EXPCTIMCHE, vec (O chac ies AXis iohE
  8. be Parallel eo the Axis oF che Nortd, and ac che opposite
  9. Wall in the Suns refracted Liohe, I placed an open BOOL.
  10. Phen coins six Fecc and erro Inches From cne BOOL, L
  11. placed chere che aborementioned Lens, by vrhich che Liohe
  12. rehlected From. the B00k miohe be made c0 converse and
  13. incet 2gain ac che distance ot sIX Feer and erro Inches be-
  14. hind che Lens, and chere paine che Species ot che BoOk
  15. upon a Pheet ot rrhice Paper much afcer the manner of che
  16. second Experiment. The Book and Lens beino made Falt.
  17. Inoced che place vrhere the Paper rras, vrhen che LCrcerS
  18. oF che Book, illuminaced by the Fullest red Lixhe of che
  19. Solar Image Falline uxon ic, did cast cheir Species on chac
  20. Paper most distinctly; And chen I stay d eill by che MIO-
  21. cion of che sun and consequent Morion ot his Image on
  22. the Bo0k, allche Colours From thac red eo che middle ot
  23. che blem passd over chose Leccers; and wrtien those L ccrers
  24. vere illuminared by chac bleu, I noced again the place ef
  25. he Paper when cher cast cheir Species most distinctly upon
  26. ic: And IFound chac this las place oF the PapeF WaS RCaTeF
  27. co the Lens chan ies Former place by about erro Tnches and
  28. an halt, or erro and chree quarters. So much looner chere-
  29. Fore did che Lighe in che riolet end ot the lmage by 2 grea-
  30. cer Retraction converge and meet, chan che Liphe in che
  31. red end. BuE in eryino chis che Chamber wras as dark 25 I
  32. could make ic. For it chese Colours be diluced and weak-
  33. ned by chemixcure ot ans adrencicious Ligte, che distance
  34. Neer

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 36. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0046?run=74