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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 43

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  1. retracted Lighe OT ranishes ac T, the lels retracted Liphe
  2. Ht ill become encreased whilst che more refracted Lighe
  3. at p receires no further encreale. And as the erajected
  4. Beam MIO in vanictins is alivars of such a Colour a5
  5. oughe co retule From che mixture of che Colours ihich
  6. fall uxon che Paper D T, Cois che retected BeaM NIDT al
  7. prars ot such a Colour as ouphe eo retule trom the ix
  8. ture oF che Colours itich Fall upon thC PaPeE pF. FOF
  9. when che most retrangible Rays are by a eoral ReAexion
  10. taken oue ot ehe Beam NTO. and leare thac Beam Ot aM
  11. Oranse Colour, the excels oF chose Rars in the resected
  12. Lighe, does noc only makce cheviolet, Indiso and Bluc at
  13. Pmore FuII, buc aIso makces the Beam N N chansc FrOM
  14. the velloith Colourorche sun sLighe, e0 a pale whice in-
  15. clinins co blue, and altermard recorer ies rellowist Co-
  16. lour asain, (0 TOon 25 aII the rest oF che cransmicced lighE
  17. MIOTis reflected.
  18. Nom sccing chac in all chis rarieer ot Experiments,
  19. Whecher the crial be made in Liohe reflected, and ehat cithex
  20. from natural Bodies, 25 in che Arst and second FxperimenE,
  21. Or Specular, 25 in cheTTinch; or in Lighe retracted, and
  22. chac cither betore the unequallr retracted Rays are by di-
  23. verging separated trom one anocher, and losing cheir whire-
  24. vels irhich cher hare alcogether, appear severally ot sere-
  25. ral Colours, 25 in ehe Eteh Experimene; or atcer cher are
  26. separated from one anocher, and appear Coloured as in che
  27. Circh, Sevench, and ciptich Experiments; or in Lighc era-
  28. jected chrough Parallet superticies, destrorins cach ochers
  29. Fiffects as in che ioch Experimene; chere are alvars Found
  30. RaYs, irhich ac equal Incidences on che lame Medium SuF-
  31. fer unequal Retractions, and chac ichout aur spliceing or
  32. dilatins oF sinsle Rays, or concingence in che inequalier
  33. OF the Retractions, as is proved in the fitth and SIXTh LX
  34. Periments;

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 43. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0053?run=74