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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 83

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  1. phers. In eryins these chinss tis tobe obserred, that
  2. by hom muchthe FToles L’and HI are narrorer, and the
  3. interrals betireen them, and the Prilm oreater, and the
  4. Chamber darter, by so much the becter doth the Fx
  5. periment succced; provided the Light be not (0 Far
  6. diministred, buc that the Colours at pt bc Cusficientr
  7. risible. T0 procure a Prilm oF Colid Cilass larse enough
  8. For this Fixperiment will De difficult, and therctore a
  9. prilimatiek Vessel must be made ot politted Cilals. Plates
  10. cemented together, and tulled wich Nater.
  11. E Z P F R. TI.
  12. The Suns Lishe let into a dark Chamber throush Fis. 2.
  13. theround Holeti, halEan luch ide, passed Arst through
  14. che Prilm ABC placed at the HTole, and then throush
  15. a Lens PY Comethins more than tour Inches broad, and
  16. about eishit Fcet distant trom the Prilm, and thence con-
  17. versed to Othe Locus oF the Lens distant trom it about
  18. chree Lcet, and there Feil upon a irhite Paper DF. IF
  19. that Paper ras perpendicular to that Lishe incident up-
  20. on it, a5 tis reprelented in the posture DL, alltheCo.
  21. lours upon it at O appeared irhite. But il the Paper
  22. beins turned about an Axis parallel to the Prilm, DC-
  23. came very much inclined to the Light aS tis reprelen.
  24. ted in the positions de and sc; the tame LishE in The
  25. one case appeared vellor and red, in the other blue.
  26. lere one and the lame part of the Lisht in one and the
  27. lame place, accordins to the rarious inclinations of the
  28. Caper, appeared in one case irhite, in another vellor
  29. or redu in a chird blue, Whils che contine oC Ligtt and
  30. Stractow,

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 83. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0103?run=74