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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 64

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  1. ins che Prism, I Found ervo or chrec licele Bubbles in che
  2. Class which retracted che Lighe irregularty. Wheretore L
  3. corered chat pare oF the Class wich black Paper, and let-
  4. eins che Lighe pals chrough anocher part ot ic wrhich vas
  5. Frec trom uch Bubles, che Spectrum ot Colours became
  6. Frectrom chole irregular Screams ot Lighe, and ras non
  7. (uch asI. desired. Buc Rill I Found the Violer (0 dark and
  8. Faine, chac l could scarce sec the Species oF the Lines by the
  9. Violet, and noc ac all by che decpest pare oF ic, irtrich was
  10. nexe che end ot che Spectrum. I Suspected cheretore chac
  11. this Faine and dark Colour miohe be allared by thac scar-
  12. cerins Lighe irhich as retracted, and reflected irregularty
  13. parely by some very (mail Bubbles in che Clastes and
  14. parely by che inequalicies of cheir Polictr: Wtrich Lighe,
  15. tho ic was bue licele, vec ic beinq ot 2 Whice ColOuT,
  16. miphe sustice co affect che sense (0 sronoly as eo dicturb
  17. the Phaenomena ofthat weak and darke Colour che Violet,
  18. and cheretore I cried, a5 in the 12th, 13th, 1ath Experi-
  19. menes, Whecher che Liohe ot chis Colour did nor consist ot
  20. a sensible mixture oF hecerogeneous Rays, bur found ic did
  21. nOc. Nor did che Retractions cause any other sensible
  22. Colour chan Violet eo emerge out of chis Lighe, 25 chey
  23. vould hare done our ot Whice Lighe, and by con-
  24. lequence out of this Violet Lighe had ic been sensi-
  25. bly compounded wich Whice Lighe. Andcheretore Icon-
  26. cluded, chat the realon why lcould noc sec the Species ot
  27. the Lines distinctly by this Colour, was only che darknels
  28. oF ehis Colour and Thinnels oF ies Lighe, and ies dis
  29. cance Fromthe Axis oF the Lens; I dirided cheretore chose
  30. Parallet Black Lines inco equal Pares, by which P miohe
  31. readily lnom che distances ot che Colours in che spectrum
  32. trom one another, and nored che distances OF che L enS
  33. trom the Foci of such. Colours as cast che Species ot che
  34. Lines

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 64. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0074?run=74