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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 114

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  2. (124
  3. Colours irtich the component Porrders (Orpiment,
  4. Purple, Bile, and Viride ris) hare in the Pame Sun
  5. ine, vou must acknomledse by this Lxperiment, 25
  6. vell asby theformer, that pertect wrhitenets may De
  7. compounded ot C OlOurS.
  8. From what has been Caid it is also crident, FHAL FHC
  9. artriteness oF the SunsLight is compounded oF aII thc
  10. Colours Whererith the severat Torts ot cars wrhereot
  11. chat Lighe consists, Wrhen by their sereral retransibili
  12. ties ther are separated From one another, do tinse P’apei
  13. or any other irhite Body Whereonther Fall. For thole
  14. Colours by Prop. 2. are unchanseable, and irheneree
  15. aII thole raps rith those their ColOurS are mint agaIB
  16. chey reproduce the lame wrhite Lislit as betore.
  17. PROP. VI. PROB. TI.
  18. In a mixture of primary Colours, the quantity and quality
  19. of each beine siven, to tenores the Colour of the com-
  20. pound.
  21. s. II. Withthe Center O and Radius OD describe a Circie
  22. ADF, and distinguittr its circumterence into leven parts
  23. DE, E F, FC, CA, AB, BC, C. D, PropOrtiOnA) 10
  24. ehe seren musical Pones or Interrals oEche ciohe Sounds,
  25. Sol, la fau sol, la min fa sol, contained in an Fient,
  26. that is, proporcional to the numDeIS 3, 163 203 5 10n 167
  27. . L et the trI PAEE DF reprelent a red ColOUI, thC
  28. second R Liorange, the third sC vellor, the Fourth
  29. CTI orcen, the fiFch AB blue, the SXth BC indico,
  30. and the seventh C. D violet. And conceire that thele
  31. are all the Colours oF uncompounded. Lisht gradually
  32. pasInS
  33. 18 1a 6b

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 114. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0134?run=74