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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 88

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  1. rated rars, did in the prooresstrom its end p, on rrhich
  2. the most retransible rars Fels, unto its other end L, On
  3. erhrich the least retransible rars tell, appear tinged wich
  4. this Series of Colours, violet, indico, blue, sreen, vel
  5. low, oranse, red, toscther ith all cheir intermediate
  6. degrees in a continual succestion perpetually varyins:
  7. S0 that there appeared as many desrees oF COlOurs, 25
  8. there were Ports oF rays ditterins in retransibility.
  9. AIZ P F R. V.
  10. Now that these Colours could not De changed by re-
  11. Fraction, Iknew by retractino rith a Prilm Lometimes
  12. one very licele part oF this Lishe, Cometimes another
  13. very little part, as is delcribed in the i2th fixperiment
  14. OF the ArsE BOOK. For by this retraction the Colour ot
  15. the Lisht ras nerer changed in che lealt. IF any part
  16. OFthe red Lisht as retracted, it remained totally ot
  17. the lame red Colour as betore. Ho oranse, no vel
  18. lorr, no green, or blue, no other new C Olour Wras prO.
  19. duced Oy that retraction. Neither did the Colour ans
  20. rays chanse by repeated retractions, but continued al-
  21. avars the lame red entirely as at Arst. The like con-
  22. staner and immutabilier I tound allo in the blue, orcen,
  23. and ottier COlours. S0 allo iFI looked throuoh a Prilm
  24. uxon any body illuminated with ans part ofthis homo
  25. oeneal Lient, a5 in the gth Fxperiment oF te first
  26. Book is described; l could not perceire any nem C0
  27. lour generated this ray. AII Bodies illuminated ith
  28. compound Light appear throushi Prisins confused (as
  29. WraS. laid abore) and tinsed rith rarious new C OIOUTS,
  30. but those illuminated rith homogeneal Light appeared
  31. throusI

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 88. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0108?run=74