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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 96

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  1. CC
  2. EO itS sinc oF refraction aS FOUF tO three; the sine ol
  3. incidence ot that rar ont ot GlaIS into WVater Will BCFO
  4. its sinc ot refraction a5 20 t0 3r and 4 toz jorntly, that
  5. 15, 25 the Factum oF 20 and 4 to the F’actum oF ZL and
  6. 33 OF 4580 +093.
  7. And these Theorems beins admitted into Opticks,
  8. there rould be (copeenoush ot handlinq that Science
  9. voluminoullr alter a neur manner; not ontr by teachins
  10. thole chinss irhich tend tothe perfection ot vision, but
  11. alloby determinins mathematicasIr all kinds oF Phaeno-
  12. mena ot Colours wrhich could be produced by retra-
  13. etions. For todo this, there is nothing else requisite
  14. than to find out the separations ot heterOgeNCOUS FaYS,
  15. and their various mixtures and proportions in everi
  16. mixture. By chis way oE arsuins linvented almioit
  17. allthe Phaenomena described in these BO0kS, Beside Tome
  18. othiers lels necellary to the Aroument; and by the
  19. successes I met rith in the tryals, I dare promile, that
  20. tohim wtro Mail argue truly, and then try all chings
  21. rith good Cilasses and sufficient circumspection, the
  22. expectederent illnot bemantino. But he is Arst to
  23. knom wrhat Colours ill arise from any others mixt in
  24. any aftigned ProPOrtiOM.
  25. PROP. IV. THEOR. TTI.
  26. Colours may he produced hy composition rehich salt be lite
  27. to the Colours of homooeneal Fieht as to the appearance
  28. ofColour, but not as to the immutabilitus of Cotour and
  29. constitution of Tieht. And those Colours hy horo mucto
  30. they are more compounded by so much are they less fult
  31. aud inteuse, and by too much composition they may be
  32. dilutet

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 96. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0116?run=74