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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 84

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  8. But De refracted by a larse Prim ABC, wrhole re
  9. Tractins Ansle C. is more than 60 degrees, and (o loon
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  12. Wrhien the Paper is perpendicular to it, 25 tis seprelen-
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  14. but irhien the Paper is very much inclined to it in tuch
  15. a manner a5 to keep alirars parallel to the Axis of the
  16. Prism, the erhiteness ot the wrhole Lishe upon the
  17. Paper ill accordins to the inclination ot the Paper
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  19. red, a5 in the posture des or into blue and violet, a5
  20. in thepolture oc. And if the Light betore it fail upon
  21. the Paper be tvice refracted the Came ray by tmo pa-
  22. rallet Prisms, these Colours rill become the more con-
  23. Spicuous. FTere alI the middle parts oF the brond Beam
  24. OFwrhite Light prhich fell upon the Paper, did rithout
  25. any contine ot hadtor to moditr it, become coloured
  26. aII over rith onc unitorm Colour, theColour beins al-
  27. ays the tame in the middte ot the Paper as at the
  28. cdges, and this Colour changed accordinq the rarious
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  32. Fig. 3.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 84. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0104?run=74