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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 82

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  1. TTole, and paraslel toit, and then (with its wrhite part)
  2. chrouoh an oblons HIOleHI, wrhose breadth is about
  3. the fortieth or sixtieth part oF an Inch, and irhich 15
  4. made in a black opake Body GL, and placed at the
  5. distance ot tro or three Feet trom the Prilm, in a pa-
  6. callel situation boch to the Prilm and to the former
  7. TIole, and ifthis irhite Lioht thus transmitted throuoh
  8. the Hole HI, Fall asterrards uxon a Wrhite Paper pt,
  9. placed alter that HIole H, at the distance oF three or
  10. tour Fcet trom it, and there paint the ulual Colours ot
  11. the Prim, suppole red at t, vellor at S, Sreen at Y,
  12. blue at q, and violet at p; rou may with an iron Wire,
  13. Or any such like Plender opake Bodr, Wrhose breadth is
  14. about thetenth part of an luch, by interceptins the rays
  15. at H, l, M, n OrO, takce aray any one oF the C OlOurS
  16. aEC, S, L, GOr P, WrhilA the other COlours remain ux-
  17. on the Paper as betore; or rith an obstacle lomethine
  18. bisger rou may talce avaz any tro, or three, Or FOUL C0.
  19. Jours together, the rest remainins: So that any one ot
  20. the Colours as well as violet may become outmost in
  21. the contine ot the Pado torrards p, and any one ot
  22. them a5 Wveil as red mar become outmost in the contine
  23. OFthe Bacoi corrardst, and any onc of them mav al(0
  24. border uxon the Madon made within the Colours Dy
  25. the obsacle R interceptine Pome intermediate part ot
  26. the Licht; and, lattls, anr onc ol them by. beine
  27. lest alone mar border uxon the Madorr on cither hand.
  28. AII the Colours hare themlelres indifferenty to any
  29. contines ot Phado, and theretore the difterences otthele
  30. ColoursFrom one another, do not arile from the ditse-
  31. rent contines of. Tador, Whereby Liont is rariousy
  32. modified as has hitherto been the Opinion oF Philolo
  33. PhCIS.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 82. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0102?run=74