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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 113

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  1. p
  2. TI2
  3. (that wrtrich iras compounded of Orpiment, Purple,
  4. Bise and Viride LAris) and rubbed it thickly uxon the
  5. Hoor ot my Chamber, irhere the Sun phone upon it
  6. chroueh the opened Calement; and by it, in the Mra-
  7. dorr, llaid a piece of Wrhite Paper ot the lame bignels.
  8. Phen coino From them to the distance ot 12Or 18 Fcet,
  9. Tothat I could not discern the unerenne(s ot the Curtace
  10. oFthe Porrder, nor the little ados let Fail From the
  11. sritey particles thereot; the Porrder appeared intensty
  12. erhite, 10 asto transcend even the Paper it selE in wrhite
  13. nels, especially if the Paper vere a litele haded From
  14. The Light oF the Clouds, and then the Paper compared
  15. rith che Porder appeared of such a grey Colour as the
  16. Porrder had done betore. But by lavine the Paper
  17. Wrhere the sun Mines throuoh the Class oFthe Windo,
  18. or by Buctino the Windom that the Sun mishe ine
  19. throuoh the Class upon thePorrder, and by such other
  20. tit means of increasins or decrealins the Lights irtere
  21. rith the Ponder and Paper ivere illuminated, the
  22. Lieht wheremith the Poirder is illuminated may De
  23. made Aronser in Tuch a due proportion than the Light
  24. rheremich the Paper is illuminated, thac ther MaII Boch
  25. appear exactly alike in vrhitenels. For irhen I Was
  26. eryins this, a Friend comins to vilit me, I Aopt him
  27. at the door, and betore I told him irtrat the Colouis
  28. arere, or irhiat Trras doins; Lasket him, Which ot che
  29. tro irhites irere thebest, and wherein they differed e
  30. And alter he hrad at that distance riemed them vell, he
  31. ansrered, That they vere both good erhites, and chat
  32. he could not Car which vas best, nor wherein their Co-
  33. lours differed. Nou il vou consider, that this erhite
  34. OF the Porrder in the Sun. Mine rras compounded of the
  35. COtOUrS

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 113. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0133?run=74