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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 86

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  1. Pothese Fxperiments may be added the tenth FX-
  2. periment oE che tirst B0ok, Wrhere the suns Light in a
  3. dark Room beins trajected throush the parallel superti-
  4. cies oftiro Prilmstied together in the form ot a Paral.
  5. lelopide, became totally ot one unitorm vellor or red
  6. COlOur, at its emergins out of the Prilms. Hlere, In
  7. the production ot these Colours, the contine oF Madon
  8. can have nothins t0 do. Forthe Lisht chanses FrOM
  9. Wrhite tovellor, oranse and red successirely, rithout any
  10. alteration oEthe contine of strador: And at both edges ot
  11. theemergins Lisht irhere thecontrary contines oF Ma-
  12. dorr ousht to produce ditterent efects, the Colour 15
  13. one andche Came, Wrhether it be rrhute, sellorr, oranse
  14. or red: And in the midale ot the emersins Light,
  15. artrere there is no contine ot Mador at aIL, the COIOUE
  16. i5 the very lame a5 at the edges, the Wtrole Lioht at its
  17. very tirk emergence beins ot one unitorm Colour, irhe
  18. cherwrhite, vellor, oranse or red, and goins on thence
  19. perpetually richout ans chanse ot Colour, cuca a5 the
  20. contine ot strador is vulsarty suppoled to worke in ie
  21. Fracted Lisht alter us emergence. Ncither can thele
  22. Colours arise trom any new moditications ot the Light
  23. by retractions, becaule they chanse successirels trom
  24. Wrhitetorellor, oranse and red, rrhile the retractions
  25. remain the same, and allo becaule the retractions are
  26. made contrary rays by parallel superticies wrhich de-
  27. Aroy one anothers effects. Lhey arile not theretore
  28. trom ans modifications oF Lishe made by retractions
  29. and Chadors, but hare Lome other cause. What that
  30. cause 15 ive ered abore in this tenth Lixperiment,
  31. and need not here repeat II.
  32. L. DetC

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 86. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0106?run=74