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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 107

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  4. red further From the Prisim, and the several ranges ot
  5. Lolours prill be dilated and expanded into one another
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  9. little more (suppose in the place 2D 2F) they rilt
  10. lo Far dilute one anoctrer as to become white.
  11. Nith any Obstacle let aII the Lishe De no AOpE
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  13. that the range of Colours irhich comes From thence may
  14. De taken arrar, and vou rrill sec the light ofthe rest ot
  15. cheranges to De expanded into the place of the range
  16. caken drar, and there to be coloured. L et the inter-
  17. cepted ranse pass on as betore, and its Colours Fallins
  18. upon the Colours of the other ranges, and mixins rith
  19. them, will restore the irhitenes.
  20. LCt. the Paper 2D 2 F. be non very much inclined to
  21. che rays, (o that the mos retransible rays may be more
  22. copioulr reflected thanthe rest, and thewhite Colour
  23. otthe Paper throush the excess ot those rars rill DC
  24. changed into blue and violet. Let the Paper DC a5
  25. much inclined the contraer rar, that the least retran.
  26. sible rars may be nom more copioustr reflected than
  27. the rest, aud by their excels the irhitenels rill De
  28. chansed into vellon and red. The sereral rars there-
  29. tore in that irhite Light do retain their coloritic qua-
  30. lities, by wrhich thole ot arir Cort, Wrhen- ever ther be-
  31. come more copious than the rest, do by their excels
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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 107. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0127?run=74