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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 111

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  1. LPTI
  2. chey are illuminated. Por ther become coloured By
  3. reflectins the Lighe oFtheir omn Coloursmore copioull),
  4. and chat oE all other Colours more sparinsly, and yet
  5. ther do not refect the Light ot their omn Colours (0
  6. copiouslr as Wrhite Bodies do. IF red Lcad, Tor instance,
  7. and a Wrhice Paper, be placed in the red Lieht ot chc
  8. coloured Spectrum made in a dark Chamber by the re-
  9. Fraction oF a Prisin as is described in thethird Lperi-
  10. ment oFthe Aest B0ok; the Paper will appear more lu-
  11. cid than the red Lead, and theretore reflects the red-
  12. makine raysmore copiousr than red L. cad doth. And
  13. iFthey be held in the Light of anr other Colour, the
  14. Lishe refected by the Paper will exceed the Light re-
  15. Aected by. the red Lead in a much sreater proportion.
  16. And the likce happens in Porrders ot other Colours.
  17. And cheretore by. mixins such Porrders e are not to
  18. expect a srons and fullirhite, such as is that of Papei,
  19. but Come duster obleure one, luch as miont arise From a
  20. mixture ofliont and darknels, or From irhite and black,
  21. that 15, a srer, or dun, or russet bron, uch asare the
  22. Colours ot a Mans Nail, OF a Nouse, oF ACeS, OF OF-
  23. dinaxy Stones, OF NOrtar, OF Dust and Dirt in High
  24. raro and the like. And such a darke irhite Lhave
  25. osten produced by mixins coloured Porrders. L’or thus
  26. one part ot red Lead, and tre parts ot Viride Lris, com
  27. Posed à dun Colour like that of a Moule. Por thele
  28. erro Colours vere sererallr (o compounded oE others,
  29. that in both tosether vere a mixture oF aIl C OlOurs; and
  30. there Wras lels red Lead uled than Viride Aris, becaule
  31. oF the Fulnels oF its Colour. Again, one part ot red.
  32. Lead, and tour parts otblue Bile, compoled a dun C0-
  33. lour vergins a licile to purple, and by addins to this a
  34. certa

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 111. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0131?run=74