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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 87

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  1. There is vet another material circumstance oF thIS
  2. Fixperiment. For this emergins Light being by a third Fic. 22.
  3. Prilm FIIK retracted torrardsthe Paper PP, and there Part 1.
  4. Daintins the usual Colours of the Prism, red, vellou,
  5. sreen, blue, violet: IF these Colours arose from the
  6. retractions of thac Prilm moditvins the Light, they
  7. ronld not be in the Light betore its incidence on that
  8. Prilm. And vet in that Fixperiment re Found that
  9. Wvtren brturnine the trro Arlt Prisins about their com
  10. ion AXis aII the Colours vere made to vani but the
  11. red; the Lisht rhich makes that red beins letr alone,
  12. appeared ot the verr Pame red Colour betore its inci-
  13. dence on the third Prism. And in general ve find by
  14. other Fxperiments that when the rars erhich ditter in
  15. retransibilitr are separated From one another, and auy
  16. one Cort ot them is considered apart, the Colour ot the
  17. Lisht irhich ther compose cannot De changed by any
  18. retraction or reflexion whaterer, as it ougnt to beWere
  19. Colours nochins else than modifications ot Light cauled
  20. Oy retractions, and reflexions, and Padous. This un-
  21. changeablenels ot Colour J am nou to describe in the
  22. Follorrins Propolition.
  23. PROP. TI. THFOR. TI.
  24. Al homoreneat Feht has its proper Colour anfrverine to
  25. its deoree of refransibility, and that Colour cannot be
  26. chansed by reflexions and refractions.
  27. In ThC ExperimentS OF thC Ath Proxolition oF the Firs
  28. B0oK, Wrhen l had separated the heteroseneous rays
  29. om one another, the Spectrum pt Formed by the sepa-
  30. ratect

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 87. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0107?run=74