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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 115

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  1. TTB
  2. passins into one another, as they do irhen made by
  3. PTISIS; ThC CITCUIFCTeNCO D F. LGFABC D, represen-
  4. tins the wrhole series ot Colours From one end oF the
  5. Suns coloured Image to the other, (0 that From D to f.
  6. bc al degrees of red, at l. themean Colour betreen red
  7. andorange, Erom F. 10 Lall desrees oF OransC, ac F the
  8. inean betreen oranse and vello, From L t0 C aIl de-
  9. srees oF vellorr, and (0 on. P et p bc the center ot
  10. Srarity oFthe ArCh DH, and 9, E, Sq C, V, Z9 thC centers
  11. ot grarits oF the Arches FL, FC GA, AB, BC.
  12. and C. D respectirely, and about thole centers ot gra-
  13. viey let Circles proportional to the number oF rays ot
  14. each Colour in the siren mixture be described; that 15,
  15. the circle p proportionalto the number oF the red. ma-
  16. kins rars in the mixture, the Circle q proportional to
  17. che number ot the orangemakcins rars in the mixture,
  18. and (ooF therest. Find the common center of gravitr.
  19. OF all those Circles P, G, 1, S, C, V, Z. L et that center
  20. bCZ; and From the center ofthe Cirele ADF, throueh
  21. Zto the circumterence, dramins the rishit line L,
  22. the place ofthe point P in the circumterence MaII MCW:
  23. the Colour aritins From the composition oF aII the CO-
  24. lours in the siven mixture, and the line OZ Mall. DC
  25. proportional to the tulnels or intensene(s of the COlour,
  26. that i5, t0 its distance from irhiteness. A5 it YFaIL in
  27. the midele Detireen F and C, the compounded Colour
  28. MalI bethe best vello; il Prerse trom the midale to-
  29. rards L’Or Cr, the compounded Colour Mall accordins
  30. ly be a vellorr, versins torarde oranse or sreen. IIL
  31. tallupon the circumterence the Colour Mall be intenle
  32. and Rorid in thehighest degrec; it it Fall in the mid
  33. vay betveen the circumterence and center, it Mall be
  34. BUE

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 115. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0135?run=74