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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 99

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  1. (99
  2. equally distant From aII the COlours, (0 that it mighe
  3. Dc equallr illuminated by them aI it appeared irhite.
  4. And in this last situation of the Paper, if some COlours
  5. avere intercepted, the Paper lost its irhite Colour, and
  6. appeared oF the Colour ot the rest ot the LiohE irhick
  7. ras not intercepted. Sothenthe P’aper vras illuminated
  8. rith Lighes ot rarious Colours, namely, red, vellonr,
  9. sreen, blue and violet, and erery part ot the Light re
  10. cained its prover Colour, until it ras incident on the
  11. Paper, and became reflected thence to the FyC; (o that
  12. if it had been cither alone (the rest ot che Light being
  13. intercepted) or it it had abounded most and been prC-
  14. dominant in the Light rehlected From the Paper, it vould
  15. have tinged the Paper rith its onn Colour; and vet De-
  16. ins mixed with the rest of the Colours in a due propor-
  17. tion, it made the l’aper look white, and theretore by a
  18. composition rith the rest produced that Colour. Jne
  19. sereral parts ot the coloured Lixht refected from the
  20. Spectrum, Wrhilsthey are propasated trom thence thro
  21. the Air, do perpetually retain their proper COlOuIS,
  22. becaule Wrhererer cher Fall uxon the Rres ot any Specta-
  23. tor, ther make the leveral parts ot the Spectrum to
  24. appear under their proper COlours. Pher retain there
  25. Fore their proper Colours wrtien ther Fall upon the la-
  26. per V, and (0 by the contution and pertect mixture ot
  27. chose Colours compound the wrhitenels oE the Ligh
  28. reftected from thence.
  29. E Z P F. R. Z.
  30. et thatSpectrum or lon mae l’a sun sn apoh Fic. 6
  31. the Lens M N abore tour luches broad, and about siX
  32. Fcet

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 99. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0119?run=74