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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 66

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  1. oned the wtole leneth at che Colours noc o be chenhole
  2. lorsch oEche Spectrum, buc ihe lensch ot its rectilinear
  3. Tides, (0 complerins chesomicinlar Fnds inco Circles, ivhen
  4. cicher of che obserred Colours Fell michinthole Circles,
  5. mealured che distance et cac Colour srom che Find of che
  6. Spoctrum, and subductins halethe distance trom che mea-
  7. sured distance ot che Colours, L cook che remainder FOr
  8. cheir corrected distances; and un chese Obserrations sec
  9. donn chis corrected diltance for che difference ot cheir di-
  10. Aances From. che Lens. For asthe lenorh ofthe rectilincar
  11. sides of che Spectrum nvould bethe whole lenochi oF all che
  12. Colours, Wvere che Circles of ntich las ve Chemed) chat
  13. Spectrum consilts contracted and roduced ro Physical
  14. Poines, Co in chac Cale chis corrected distance rould be che
  15. real distance ot che oblerred Colours.
  16. Wten cheretore L Furcher obserredthe deepestsensible R ed,
  17. and chac Blue irhose corrected distance trom ic i2s ParES
  18. oFche lensch oE ohe rectilinear sides of the Spectrum, the
  19. difference oF che distances ot cheir Foci trom che L ens Wvas
  20. abOuc 8 Inches, ana 25 7 10 12 (0. 153 1053
  21. When I obserred che decpest sensible Red, and chat Indi-
  22. ∞o nhole corrected distance ras = Or = oF che lenoch of che
  23. rectilincar Cides of che Spectrum, che ditterence ot the di
  24. sances of cheir Foci From che L ens, mas abour z2 luches,
  25. and 25 2 10 3. (0 15 3:- 10 55.
  26. When P obserred che deepest sensible Red, and chac deep
  27. Indigo nhole corrected distance trom one anocher was = Or
  28. ot che lengch of the rectilincar sides ot the spectum, che
  29. difference ot the distances of their Foci tromthe L ens Was
  30. abouc 4 Inches; and 25 3 20 4 (O is A EO 5
  31. Wtien I obserred che deepest sensible Red, and chat part
  32. of che Violet next the Indiso hole corrected distance trom
  33. he Red Was Ox s oF che lenech oEche rectilinear sides ot
  34. che

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 66. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0076?run=74