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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 103

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  1. Tuccessirely the Teeth of this Instrument near the L enS,
  2. l’intercepted part of the Colours by the interpoled
  3. Looth, WrhilCt the rest otthem ent on throughthe in-
  4. terral oF the Teeth tothe Paper DF, and there pain-
  5. ted a round Colar Image. Bucthe Paper I had Arst Pla-
  6. ced lo, thac the Image misht appear white a5 otten
  7. a5the Comb as taken avay; and then the Comb bC-
  8. ins as as Caid interpoled, that wrhiteness by realon ot
  9. che intercepted part oF the COlours at the Lens did al-
  10. rars chanse into the Colour compounded ot thole
  11. Colours Wrhich irere not intercepted, and that Colour
  12. ras by the motion ofthe Comb perpetually varied l0
  13. that in the passins ot every Tooth over the Lens aII
  14. thele Colours red, vellor, sreen, blue and purple, did
  15. alrars succeed one another. I cauled theretore allthe
  16. Leethto pass successirely over the Lens, and irhen the
  17. motion ras Por, there appeared a perpetual succession
  18. ot the Colours upon the P’aper: But it Llo much acce-
  19. lerated the motion, thatthe Colours by reason of their
  20. quick succession couid not be distinguithred From one
  21. another, the appearance of the linsle Colours cealed..
  22. Phere rras no red, no vello, no sreen, nO bluC, nOL
  23. Durple to be scen ans longer, buc trom a contulion ot
  24. ehem all there arose one unitorm white C olour. OF he
  25. Light whrich nou by the mixture ot all the Colours ap-
  26. peared white, there ras no part really irhite. One
  27. part Was red, another vellor, a third green, a Fourth
  28. blue, a tilth purple, and every part retains itS PrODeF
  29. Colour till it srikre thesenlorium. IF the impreltions
  30. tollo one another Rlolr, (o that cher mar De leve-
  31. rally perceired, there is made a distinet lenlation oF aII.
  32. the Colours one alter another in a continual succestion.
  33. BUL

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 103. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0123?run=74