Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 98

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2. added, that Colour ill not vanist or change its spe-
3. cies but be diluted, and by addins more and more irhite
4. it rill be diluted more and more perpetuallr. Last.
5. IV. if red and riolet be mingled, there ill be generated
6. accordins to their rarious Proportions various Purples,
7. Tuch as are not like in appearance to the Colour ot ans
8. homosencal Light, and oF thele Purples mixt with vel-
9. lorr and blue may be made other new COlOUES.
10. eROP. V. THEOR. IV.
11. WBiteness and al erey Colours betreeen rebite and black,
12. may be compounded of Colours, and the rehiteness of the
13. Suns Fisht is compounded of au the primary Colours
14. mint in a due proportion.
15. The Proos by Fxperiments.
16. F X P F R. IZ.
17. The Sun Mining into a dark Chamber throuoh d
18. little round Hole in the Windom Cut, and his Lighe
19. beins there retracted by a Prilm to cast his coloured.
20. Imase PT uxon the OppOsite WVaII: I held a wrhite Pa-
21. per V to that Imase in such manner that it might be
22. illuminated br the coloured Lisht reflected From thence,
23. and vet not intercept any parc oF that Lighe in its pal
24. lase trom the Prilm tothe Spectrum. And I Found that
25. irtren the Paper was held nearer to anr Colour than t0
26. the rest, it appeared of that C olour to irhich it ap
27. proached nearest; but wrhen it ras equally or almolt
28. cquaIIy
29. F18. 5.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 98. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0118?run=74