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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 108

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  1. (108
  2. And by the Came ray oE arguins, applied to the third
  3. tixperiment of this Book, it may be concludedu that
  4. the irhite Colour ot all retracted Light at ies very tirs
  5. emersence, irhere it appears as Wrhite as betore its inci.
  6. dence, is compounded ot rarious C OlOUrS.
  7. E. Z P F. R. ZIII.
  8. In the foresoine Experiment the sereral interrals ol
  9. the Teeth of the Comb dothe office oF (0 any PrIIInSq
  10. everr interral producins the Phaenomenon oF one Prilm.
  11. Whence instead of those interrals ulins several Prisms, l
  12. ter dto compound irtiitenelsby mixins their C olours, and
  13. did it by utins only chree Prilims, 25 al(0 by utins only
  14. 1c. 10. trro as Tollors. Pet trro Prilms ABC. and abC, wrhole
  15. retractins Angles B and D are equal, DC (0 placed paralIel
  16. toone another, that the refractinq Anole B oF the one
  17. mar touch the Anele c at the bale oF the other, and
  18. their planes C. B and cb, at Wrtrich the raYS emergC, inaV
  19. Ire in directum. Lhen let the Light trajected throusl
  20. ehem Fall upon the Paper M NV, dictant about 8 O1 12
  21. lnches trom che Prilins. And the COlourS generated
  22. br the interior limits B and c ot the tiro Prilms, rill
  23. beminsled at PP, and there compound wrhite. Por il
  24. cither Priln betaken awar, the Colours made by the
  25. other rill appear in that place PP, and wrhen the Pritin
  26. 15 resored to its place aeain, (o that its Colours mav
  27. there Fall uxon the Colours ol the ocher, the mixture
  28. oF them both ill rectore the irhitenels.
  29. L. HIId

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 108. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0128?run=74