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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 105

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  2. Tou may instead oE ehe Lens ule erro Prisins HIK
  3. and L. MN, irhich by retractinq the coloured Lixnt
  4. the contrary ray to that of the krst retraction, may
  5. make the diverging rars converse and meet again in
  6. 25you sec it represented in the leventh Fisure. For Fis. 7.
  7. irtere they meet and mix they riil compole a white
  8. Light as irhen a Lens is uled.
  9. F X P F. R. ZI.
  10. Let the Suns coloured Image P P Fall upon the WV alI F15. 8.
  11. OEa dark Chamber, a5 in the third Lxperiment oF the
  12. AxIFBOOK, and let the lame be riemed chrourh a Prism
  13. abc, held parallel to ihe Prism ABC, by Whose retra-
  14. ction that lmase ras made, and let it nou appear lorrer
  15. than before, suppole in the place S over against the red
  16. colour Y. And it rou go near tothe lmase PY, the
  17. Spectrum S rill appear oblons and coloured like the
  18. LinasC PT; but it rou recede trom it, the Colours ot
  19. the Spectrum S will be contracted more and more, and
  20. at lensth vanist, that Spectrum S becomine perfectly
  21. round and irhite; and il vou recede vet Further, the
  22. Colours rill emerse asain, but in a contrary order.
  23. Nor that Spectrum S appears irhite in that case irten
  24. the rays oE lereral Ports irhich conrerse From the leve-
  25. ral parts oF the linage PY, to the Prilin abc, are (0
  26. retracted unequally by it, that in their pallage From the
  27. Prisin to the tiye ther may diverse trom one and the
  28. same point of the Spectrum S, and (0 FaI afterrards
  29. uxon one and the lame point in the bortom ofthe lse,
  30. ind there beminsled.
  31. d o

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 105. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0125?run=74