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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 37

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  2. distance in the lecond Exporimone ivhere che Colours ot
  3. nacural Bodies aere made use ot, ras buc an Inch and a
  4. halt, by realon ot cheimperlection of chole Colours. Ilere
  5. in ehe Colours ot che Prilm, which are manifestly more
  6. Fuil, incense, and lively chan chose ot nacural Bodies, the
  7. distance is erro Tnches and chrec quarters.. And ivere che
  8. Colours Aill more FuII, I question noc bur chac che di-
  9. Aance mould be considerably greater. For the coloured
  10. Lighe oF che Prism, by che incerterins ot che Circles de-
  11. Scribed in che rith Figure oF che sitch Experimene, aud al(0
  12. by che Lighc oF che very briohe Clouds nexe the SunS
  13. Body incermixins wich chele Colours, and by che Lighe
  14. Scaccered by che inequalicies in che polith of che Prilm, Was
  15. (0 veey much compounded, chac che Species irhich chole
  16. faine and dark Colours, cheindigo and Violet, cast upon
  17. che Paper vere noc distinet enouph co be well observed.
  18. Exper. 9. A Prilm, Whole cro Angles ac ies Bale were
  19. equal co one anocher and halE rishie ones, and che chird
  20. a ristic onc, I placed in a bcam oF che Suns Lighe lec in-
  21. co a darke Chamber chrouoh a hole in che W indo- (HUE
  22. 25 in che chird Experiment. And curning che Prilm AOWIY
  23. abouc ies Axis uneil all che Liohe ihich vent chrouoh one
  24. oF ies Aneles and as retracted by ic began to be reflected
  25. by ies Bale, ac wrhich eill ehien ic vent out of che Clals,
  26. P obserred chac chose Rars irhich had (uffered che greacest
  27. Retraction vere looner reflected chan che rest. I conceired
  28. cheretore chac thole Rays ot che refected Lighe, wrtich
  29. vere most Retranoible, did First of all by a toral Reflexion
  30. becore more copious in chat Lixhe chan che rest, and
  31. chac atcermards che rest al(o, by 2 cocal ReAexion, be-
  32. came as copious as chele. Po try chis, Imade che re-
  33. Aected Lighe pals chrough anocher Prilm, and beins retra-
  34. Ctec

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 37. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0047?run=74