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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 101

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The machine reads it as

  1. CIC
  2. SoiEthe riolet, blue and ereen De intercepted, the re-
  3. mainins vellorr, oranse and red irill compound upon
  4. the Paper an oranse, and then it the intercepted Co-
  5. ours De let pals ther will Fail uxon this compounded
  6. oranse, and together rith it decompound a Wrhite. 50
  7. allo iF the red and riolet be intercepted, the remainine
  8. vellorr, green and blue, rill compound a green uxon
  9. thePaper, and then the red and riolet beins let pals
  10. Wrill Falluxon thisereen, and together rith it decom-
  11. pound a Wrhice. And ehat in this composition ot irtrite
  12. che sereral rays do not lutter any chanse in their colori-
  13. tic qualities by actins upon one another, but are ouly
  14. mixed, and by a mixture ot their COlours produce
  15. arhite, may Further appear by chese Arsuments.
  16. IEthe Paper beplaced berond the Locus Cr, suppose
  17. at oc and then the red Colour at the Lens be alternate.
  18. ly intercepted, and let palsagain, the riolet Colour on
  19. the Paper willnot Cutter ans chanse thereby, 25 it ought
  20. to do it che sereral forts ot rars acted upon one another
  21. in the Locus C, wrtiere they crols. Neither ill the
  22. red upon che Paper be chansed by any alternate Aop.
  23. Dins, and lettins, palsthe riolet irhich crosseth it.
  24. And if che Paper Deplaced at the tocus Ci, and the
  25. Wrhite round Imase ac Ci be riered throush the Prilm
  26. AIIK, and by the retraction of that Prilm De transtated
  27. tothe place rV, and there appear tinsed with rarious
  28. Colours, namely, the violet at r and red at r, and
  29. others betureen, and then the red Colour at the L ens De
  30. otten HopE and let pass by curns, the red at r will ac-
  31. cordinsly dilappear and return as otten, but the violet
  32. at r Wrill not chereby luitter any chanse. And lo by
  33. toppins and lettins pass alternately the blue aE the
  34. LeHSus

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 101. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0121?run=74