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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 106

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  1. (100
  2. And Furthei, it the Comb be here made use oF, bY
  3. Wrhose Tceththe Colours at theTmage PY may be suc
  4. cessivels intercepted; the Spectrum S irten the Comb
  5. is mored Romly ill be perpetually tinged rith luc.
  6. celtire COlOurs: But wrtien by acceleratine, the motion
  7. ofthe Comb, the succestion ot the Colours is (o quick
  8. that ther cannot be sererally seen, that Spectrum S, by
  9. a contuled and mixt senlation ot them all, rill appeai
  10. Wvhite.
  11. F. Z P F R. ZII.
  12. The Sun Cinins chrough a larse Prism ABC. UPON
  13. a Comb Z X, placed immediately behind thePrism, his
  14. Lisht vrhich passed through the interstices of the P’eeth
  15. Fell upon a White Paper DF. ThC BrCAdEHS OE tHC
  16. Tecth rvere equat to their interstices, and seven Pecth
  17. together with their interstices took up an Inch in
  18. breadth. Nour irten the Paper Was about FWO Oi
  19. threc Inches dictant from the Comb, the Lisht vrhich
  20. passed throush its sereral interstices painted so many
  21. ranges ot Colours kl, Mn, OD, gr, Oc. Wrhich Wecc
  22. Parallel to one anocher and contiguous, and without anx
  23. mixture otwrhite. And these ranges ot Colours, il the
  24. Comb ras mored continually ux and dovn with a re-
  25. ciprocal motion, alcended and descended in the Papei,.
  26. and irhenthe motion oE the Comb ras (o quick, that
  27. the COlours could not be distinsuishred trom one another,
  28. theirhole Paper by their contution aud mixture in the
  29. Senlorium appeared irtute.
  30. F18. 9.
  31. la

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 106. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0126?run=74