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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 112

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  2. certain mixture oF Orpiment and Viridi ris in a due
  3. proportion, the mixture lost its purple tincture, and be.
  4. came perfectlr dun. But the Lxperiment succeeded Best
  5. without Minium thus. Po Orpiment I added by little
  6. and litele a certain FuII briohe purple, wrhich Painters
  7. rise until the Orpiment ceased to Dc rellorr, and became
  8. oF a pale red. Then I diluted that red by addine a
  9. litele Viride Airis, and a litele more blue Bile than i
  10. ridi Aeris, until it became ot such a grer or pale White,
  11. a5 versed to no one oF the COlours more than to ano
  12. cher. For thus it became of a Colour equal in wrhite
  13. nelS EO thaE OF ACtes Or OF Wood nely CUL, Or OE a
  14. MlansSKin. The Orpiment rehected more LighE Fhan
  15. did aur other of che Porrders, and theretore conduced
  16. more tothe irhitenels of the compounded Colour than
  17. tier. L0 alsion the proportions accurateiz may De
  18. difficult, by realon of the different, goodnels oF POW-
  19. ders of the lame kind. Accordinsly a5 the COlour ol
  20. any Porrderis more or less FuII and luminous, it ought
  21. to be uled in a lels Or greater proportion.
  22. Nor considerins that thele erer and dun Colours
  23. may be alio produced by mixins ertites and blacks, aud
  24. br consequence ditter trom pertect wrhites not in Species
  25. ot Colours but ontr in deoree otluminousnels, it is ma
  26. nifest that there is nothins more requisite to make
  27. them perfectly irhite than to increase cheir Lioht sutr
  28. ciently; and, on the contrary, il by increatins their
  29. Lichether can bebrouehe to pertect irhiteness, it rill
  30. chence allo follo, that they are ot the lame Species ot
  31. Colour vrith the best irhices, and difser From them only
  32. in thequantier of Light. And this I trred as FolIOIS.
  33. ltook thethird of the abore mentioned orer mixtures
  34. chac

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 112. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0132?run=74