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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 102

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  1. Lens, theblue ac eWrill accordinsly disappear and re
  2. turn, wichout ans change made in the red at P. ThC
  3. red cheretore depends on one lort ot rays, and the blue
  4. on ariother Fort, Wrhich in the Focus Ci ertrere they are
  5. commixt do not aet on one another. And there is th.
  6. Pame realon of the other Colours.
  7. lconsidered Further, that wrhen the most retrangible
  8. rays PP, and che least retransible ones IF, are by con
  9. vergins inclined toone another, the Paper, it held very
  10. oblique tothose rays in the Locus C, mioht reRect one
  11. Tort ot them more copioustr than the other COrt, and D)
  12. that means the refected Light rould be tinged in that
  13. Focus rith the Colour ot the predominant FayS, prO
  14. vided those rars sererally retained their C OlOurS OF CO
  15. loritc qualities in the composition ot wrhice made by
  16. them in that Focus. But il they did noc retain them
  17. in that White, but became all ot them Ceverally endued
  18. there ith a disposition to Prike the sense with the per-
  19. ception oF wrhite, then ther could nerer lose their irhite
  20. nels by such reflexions. Linclined theretore the l’aper
  21. tothe rays very obliquelr, as in the second Experiment
  22. ofthis Book, that the most retrangible rays might De
  23. more copioully reflected than the rest, and the wrhite
  24. Dels at lensth changed successirelr into blue, indico
  25. and violet. Then linclined it the contrary wrar, tha
  26. themost retransible rars mistit Demore copious in the
  27. retlected Light than the rest, and the erhiteness turnec
  28. Succellively to rellorr, oranse and red.
  29. LaHIY, I made an Instrument ZY in fastrion ot
  30. Comb, wrtose Teeth being in nuDer SIXECen Werc
  31. about an Ineh and an half broad, and the interrals oF thC
  32. Pceth about trro Inches ride. Phen by interpolus
  33. Tue

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 102. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0122?run=74