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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 42

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  1. lour, and in all ocher propercies (o tar as my obserration
  2. reaches, and cheretore are deservedly repuced ot che same
  3. Nacure and Consticucion, and by conséquence che one is
  4. compounded asmell as ehe orher. Buc afcex che most RC
  5. Fransible Rays begin eo be torallr reflected, and chereby
  6. Separared ouc ot che emersent LigheMO, chac Lighe changes
  7. its Colour trom wrhice co a diluce and taint vellorr, a precty
  8. sood oranse, 2 very tull red luccelirely and chen cotallr
  9. ranithes. For atcer ehe mostRetransible Rays irhich paine
  10. the Paper ac P rich a Purple Colour, are by a tocal re-
  11. Aexion cakcen out oF che Beam oF lighe MIO, che rest of
  12. the Colours itrich appear on che Paper at R and Y beino
  13. mixed in che lighe MO compound chere a faine vello,
  14. and atcer che blue and pare ot che ercen irhrich appear on
  15. the Paper becreen P and R are cakcen awar, the rest irhich
  16. appear beeireen R and Y (chac is che Vellor, Orange, Red
  17. and a licele Crcen) being mixed in ehe Beam MIO com
  18. Dound chere an Oranse; and irhien all che Rays are by re-
  19. Aexiontaken out oF che Beam MIO, exceptche lealt Retran-
  20. sible, irhich ac T appear ot a Tuil Red, their Colour is
  21. thc lame in chac Beam MIO aS atcermards ac T, che RC-
  22. traction ot che Prilm FIJK serring only co separace che
  23. differenty Retrangible Rays, Wichouc makins any alceration
  24. in cheir Colours, 25 Thall be more fully proved hereateer.
  25. AIL ertrich contrrms 25 vell che first Propolition as che se-
  26. cond.
  27. Scholium. IFchis Fxperimene and che former be conjorned
  28. Eig. 22. and made one, by axplyins a Fourch Priim VX Y EO re-
  29. tract the refected Beam M N corards ip, che conclusion
  30. will be clearer. For then the lighe Np irtich in che 4eh
  31. Prim is more retracted, ill become tuller and Aronger
  32. Wrhen che Lighe OP, itich in che chird Prilm IIYK is
  33. more retracted, ranictres ac P; an d attermards inhen che lels
  34. retracted

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 42. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0052?run=74