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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 90

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  1. (G
  2. D
  3. From ail Wrhich it is manitest, that if the Suns Light
  4. consisted ot but one Port oF rays, there would be but
  5. one Colour in the Wwhole Worid, nor mould it be pol-
  6. Sible co produce anr ne Colour by rellexions and ie
  7. Fractions, and by consequence that the rariety oF C0.
  8. lours depends upon the compolition ot Lisht.
  9. DF F TNTT TON.
  10. Thehomoseneal lighc. aud rays wtricti appear redq
  11. or rather make Objects appear (0, L call rubrific
  12. or red makns; thole erhich make Objects appear
  13. vello, oreen, blue and violet, I call vello-ma-
  14. kins, sreen makins bluc- makrimg, violet-makine,
  15. and (o oftherest. And itat any cime I speak ot
  16. lioht and rars as coloured or endued rith C0-
  17. lours, Iirould De understood to (peak not philo.
  18. Cophically and properir, but grolly, and accor-
  19. dins to luch conceptions as rulsar People in sec-
  20. ins all these Experiments rould De apt to Frame.
  21. Lor the rays to speak property are not coloured.
  22. In them there is nothine elle than a certain porver
  23. and dispolition to stir up a sentation ot this or that
  24. ColOUT. For as Pound in a Bell or muticalStrins,
  25. Ox other Coundins Bod, is nothins but a trem-
  26. blino Mocion, and in the Air nothino but that
  27. Motion propasated trom the Object, and in the
  28. Senlorium tis a senle oF tliat Motion under the
  29. torm ot lound; (o Colours in. the Obiect are no-
  30. thins but a dispolition to reflect this or that COrF
  31. ot rays more copioully than the rett; in the rayS
  32. cher are nochins but their dispolitions to propa-
  33. sate

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 90. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0110?run=74