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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 89

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  1. 89)
  2. chrough Prisins neither less distinct, nor ottermise co-
  3. loured, than wrhen riemed rith the nakced Ryes. Pheir
  4. Colours ere not in the least changed by the retraction
  5. et the interpoled Prism. I EpeaK here oE a senible
  6. chanoe oF C OIOUE: Por the LishE which I here calt hO-
  7. mogeneal, Deins not absolutelr homogeneal, there ouoht
  8. to arise lome litele chanse ot Colour trom its heteroge-
  9. neitr. But if that heterogeneitr wras (o little as it might
  10. Demade, by the laid Experiments of the tourth PropO-
  11. lition, that chanse ras not sensible, and theretore, in
  12. fixperiments irhere sense is judse, ought to be accoun.
  13. ted none aC aII.
  14. E Z P E R. VI.
  15. And as thele Colours ivere not chanseable by retra-
  16. ctions, lo neither vere ther by resexions. For aII
  17. irhite, srer, red. vellor, sreen, bluc, violet Bodies, 45
  18. Paver, ACes, red L ead, Orpiment, Indico, Bisc, Grola,
  19. Silver, Copper, Cirase, blue Florvers, Violets, Bubbles
  20. ot Water tinged rith rarious Colours, Peacocks Fea-
  21. thers, the tincture ot Fionum Nephriticum, and Tuch
  22. like, in red homogeneal Light appeared totally red, in
  23. blue Light totallr blue, in green Light totally orcen,
  24. and (0OF other COlours. In the homogeneal Lightot
  25. ot an Colour ther all appeared totally ot that lame
  26. Colour, with this onlr ditterence, that some ot them
  27. reflected that Lighe more Aronsly, others more Faintly.
  28. lnever vet tound any Body irhich by reflectins homo-
  29. veneal Lishe could sensibly chanse its C olOur.
  30. FTOL

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 89. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0109?run=74