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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 67

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  1. che Spectrum, che ditference ot the distances ot cheir Foci
  2. From the Lens mas aboue 4: Inches; and 25 5 106, l0 is
  3. 4= C0 52. For Cometimes when the L ens Was adrantagi-
  4. ousty placed, Co that ies Aris respected che Blue, and aII
  5. thines else ere well ordered, and thesun Cone clear, and
  6. Pheld my Eye very near co che Paper on irhrich che Pens
  7. cast che Species of che Lines, Pcouid sec preter distinctly
  8. che Species ofthose Lines by chac part oF che Violet wrhich
  9. was next che indipo; and lometimes P could sec chem by
  10. abore halt che Violet. For in makeine chele Experiments
  11. Thad obserred, thac che species ot thole Colours ontr ap-
  12. Peared distince which ivere in ox near the Aris oFthe L enS:
  13. So chat if che Blue or Indigo vere in the Aris, T contd see
  14. cheir Species distincelr; and chen che Red appearedmuch
  15. tels distince chan Betore. WHeretore I contrived eo make
  16. the Spectrum oF Colours Chorrer chan betore, (0 thac both.
  17. ies Ends mighe be nearer eo the Axis oF che Lens. And
  18. non ies lensch ras abouc 2; Tuches and breadch about = Or
  19. SOF an Tnch. AIso instead oF che black Lines on irtrich che
  20. Specrum vas cast, I made one black Line broader chan
  21. chole, chat L miphe see its Species more casilr; and chis
  22. Line I dirided by Chore cross Lines inco equal ParES, FOT
  23. mealurinothe distances oF the observed Colours. And nOW
  24. J could Pomerimes sec che species ob this. L ine with its diri-
  25. Tons almost 25 Far 25 che Cencers of the Senicireular Violee
  26. tind ot che Speccrum, and made chese furcher Obserrations.
  27. When L obserred che deepest sensible Red, and chac part
  28. ol the Violet whose corrected distance From ic mas aboue
  29. Parts ot the rectilinear sides of the Spectrum che difference
  30. OFche distances ol che Foci oF chole Colours From the L ens,
  31. was one time 4 anocher time 4 anochercime 13, Inches,
  32. FF.
  33. anel 25 8 c0 9, (0 are 4 13 4 3 4 5, 10 5 5 5n 55 respectivetus
  34. W

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 67. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0077?run=74