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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 100

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  1. (10O
  2. Fcet distant from the Prilm ABC, and (0 figured that
  3. it may cause thecoloured Fishe irhich diveroeth From
  4. ehe Prilm to converse and incet again at iES FOCUS C,
  5. about siX Or eient feet distant From the Lens, and
  6. chere to Call perpendicularty upon a irhrite Paper DF.
  7. And iCyou more this Paper to and Fro, rou will per-
  8. ceire that near the Lens, as at de, the wrtroie Colar limage
  9. (suppose at pF) will appear uxon it intenstr coloured
  10. alter the manner abore explained, and thatby recedin
  11. From the Lens those Colours will perpetuallr come 10.
  12. vards one another, and by mixine more and more di-
  13. lute one another continuallr, until at leneth che l’aper
  14. come to the Focus Ci, irhere by a pertect mixture they
  15. Will irhollr ranistr and be converted into wrhitenels, che
  16. Wrhole Lisht appearins nou uxon the P’aper likce a lictle
  17. arhite Circle. And alterards by recedine Further From
  18. the Lens, the rars Wrhich betore converoed will non
  19. cross one anothier in the Focus C, and diverse From
  20. thence, and therebr make the COlours Io appeai acaI,
  21. but vet in a contrary order; suppose at oc, Wrhere the
  22. red t is nou abore erhrich betore ras belou, and the
  23. riolet p is belo erhich betore Wras above.
  24. Let uS nOW ROp the Paper at thC FOcuS C artrere
  25. the Lighe appears totallr wrhite and circular, and let us
  26. consider its irhiteness. I Cay, that this is compoled ot
  27. the conrersins Colours. For iE any ot thole Colours
  28. De intercepted at the Lens, the mhitenels rill cease and
  29. derenerate into that Colour irhich ariseth from the
  30. compolition ot the other Colours irhrich are not inter-
  31. cepted. And then it the intercepted Colours be let
  32. pals and Fall uxon that compound Colour, ther mix
  33. with it, and by their mixture rettore the irhitenels.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 100. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0120?run=74