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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 85

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  1. 65
  2. to be derired Erom (ome other cause than the new mo-
  3. difications ot Liohe by refractions and MadorS.
  4. TF it be asked, Whac then is their cause d I anfivei,
  5. That the Paper in the posture de, Deins more ob-
  6. lique to the more retransible rars than to the lels re-
  7. Fransible ones, is more Aronsly illuminated by the lat-
  8. ter than by the former, and theretore the lels retran-
  9. sible rays are predtominant in the refected Light. And
  10. erhrererer they are predominant in any Light they tinge
  11. it with red or zelloir, as may in lome mealure appear by
  12. the Airst Proposition ot the Arst Book, and will more Fully
  13. appear herealter. And the contrary happens in the
  14. pocture oF the Paper oc, the more retransible rays De-
  15. ins then predominane wrhich alrars tinse Light wich
  16. blues and riolets.
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  18. TheColours oF Bubbles With Wrhich Childien play
  19. arc rarious, and change their situation variousr, with.
  20. out aur sespect to aur contine ot Badow. IF such a
  21. Bubble De corered rith a concare Gilass, to kecp it From
  22. Deins agitated by any ind or motion ot the AIr, the
  23. Colours rill Rorrly and regularty change their situa-
  24. tion, eren hilsthe Fre, and the Bubble, and aIl B0.
  25. dies vrhich emit any Light, or cast any Chadou, re-
  26. mainunmored. And theretore their Colours arise From
  27. Pome reoular cause ertrich depends not on any contine ot
  28. Padtor. Whatthis cause is wrill be Merred in the MexF
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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 85. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0105?run=74