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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 97

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  1. diluted aud roeateened till they cease. There may be
  2. also Colours produced hy composition, resbichare not fully
  3. litre any of the Colours of homoseneal Lioht.
  4. For a mixture of homoseneal red and vellon com
  5. pounds an oranse, like in appearance oF Colour to that
  6. oranse irhich in the series oF unmixed prilmatick C0
  7. lours lies betreen them; but the Light oF one Oranse
  8. is homogeneal a5 to retrangibilier, that of the other 15
  9. heteroseneal, and the Colour ot the one, it vieved
  10. chrough a Prilm, remains unchanged, that ofthe othei
  11. 15 chansed and relolved into its component COlOuIs red
  12. and velloir. And alter che lame manner other neish.
  13. bourins homoseneal Colours may compound new C0.
  14. lours, likce the intermediate homoseneal Ones, a5 Yel-
  15. Porr and oreen, the Colour betreen them both, and af-
  16. termards, it blue be added, there ill be made a green
  17. the midele Colour ofthe thrce wrhich enter the compo.
  18. Sition. For the vello and blue on cither hand, if ther arc
  19. equa linquancits chey dram theintermediate sreen equal-
  20. Iy torrards themselres in composition, and lo kecp it a5
  21. it ivere in equilibrio, thac it verse not more to thc
  22. vellor on the one hand, than to the blue on the othei,
  23. but by cheir mixt actions remain sill a middle Colour.
  24. Lo this mixed green there may be further added
  25. fome red and violet, and vet the orcen will not present
  26. Ir cease but onty oroi less fuil and vivid, and by in-
  27. creulne the red and riolet it willoror more and more
  28. dilute, uneil by the preralence ot the added Colours it
  29. De overcome and tuined into rrhitenels, or lome other
  30. Colour. E0 il tothe Colour ot any homoseneal Lignt,
  31. che Suns wrhite Lisht compoled of aIl Toris oF rayS BC
  32. addcd.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 97. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0117?run=74