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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 72

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  1. cure oFche Clals. And it rou add che briohrer half oF che
  2. Red, (thac half erhich is nexe cheOrange, and che briphteK
  3. halF oF che Creen, (chat half irtich is nexe the YcllOW,) a-
  4. Bont chree ftrh pares of che Lighe oF chese ewo Colours rill
  5. Fail wrichin che lame Circle, and eiro fifch pares will Fall wich-
  6. out ic round about; and thac which Falls ichone will be
  7. spread chronoh almost as much more space as chac irtich
  8. Falls wichin, and (0 in the orols be almost chree cimes ra-
  9. FeT. OF che ocher halF ot che Red and Green, (chat is ot
  10. the deep darke Red and Willor OrCen) abOUE OnC QUarECF
  11. Will FaII wichin ehis Circle, and chree quarrers writhour, and
  12. chat erhich Falls withour will be spread chronoh aboue Four
  13. or sire times more space than thac irtich Fall within; and (0
  14. in chc oross berarer, and it compared with che ihole Lighe
  15. arichin ic, willbe abouc 25 cimes rarer chan all chac cakien in
  16. cheorols; or rather more chan 30 Or 40 rimes rarer, bc-
  17. cause the deep red in the end ot che Spectrum ot Colours
  18. made by a Prism is very chin andrare, and che Willon Oreen
  19. is Comethins rarer chan che Orange and Vellor. The Lighe
  20. OFchese Colours cheretore bring (o verr much rarer chan thac
  21. richin che Circle, will Ccarce affect che sense especially since
  22. the deep Red and Willo. Orcen of chis Lighe, are much
  23. darker Colours chen the rest. And For che lame realon the
  24. Bluc and Violer beins much darker Colours chanchese, and
  25. much more raritied, may be neglected. For che dense and
  26. briohe Liohe ot the Circle, ill obscure che rare and weak
  27. Liohe oFchele dark Colours round about ic, and render them
  28. almost insensible. The sensible Imase of 2 lucid point is
  29. cheretore scarce broader than a Circle Whose Diameter is
  30. the 25oth part ofthe diameter ofthe aperture oF che Object
  31. Olass of a 000d Telescope, or noc much bronder, il vou
  32. excepe a fainc and darke mistr liglie round aboue ic, ihich
  33. aSpectator will scarce regard. And cheretore in a Tele(copc
  34. urhose

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 72. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0082?run=74