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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 116

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  1. C116
  2. but halfCo intense, that is, it hall BC Fuch a Cotour 45
  3. rould bemade by diluting the intensest vellon with an
  4. equal quantitr ot wrhiteness; and it it Fai uxon the
  5. center O, the Colour Mall tare los all its intensenels,
  6. ond become a irhrite. Butit is to be noted, That iF the
  7. point Z. FaIl in or near the line OD, the main insredients
  8. beino the red and riolet, the Colour compounded MalL
  9. not beany of the prilmatic Colours, but a purple, I1I.
  10. clining to red or violet, accordinsly as thie point L
  11. lieth on the side oF the line DO FoWAEdS F. Or Forrards C9
  12. and in general thecompounded violet is more brisht and
  13. more tiery thanthe uncompounded. AIIO it only tro
  14. ot the primary Colours wrhich in the Circle arc oppolite
  15. to one another De mixed in an equil proportion, the
  16. DOint Z MaII FaII uxon the center O, and vet the C0.
  17. lour compounded ot thole trro haIl not be pertectli
  18. ehite, but Come faint anonymous Colour. For I could
  19. never ret br mixins only trro primary Colours produce
  20. a pertect irhite. Whether it mar De compounded ot a
  21. mixture ot three taken at equal distances in the circum-
  22. Ference Idonot KROW DUEOFTOUT Or Are I de not much
  23. question but it mav. But these are curiosities oF litrle
  24. or no moment to the understandins the Phaenomena ot
  25. nature. For in aIl wrhites produced by nature, there
  26. uses to be a mixture oF aII Ports ot rays, and by conse
  27. quence a composition oF aII C olours.
  28. lo sire an instance ofthis Rule; suppose a Colour is
  29. compounded ot thele homogencal Colours, ot riolet
  30. part, ot indico I part, OF blue 2 Parts, OForeen Z partS,
  31. Ot vellorr s parts, OF oranse 6 Parts, and ot red 10 parts.
  32. Proportional to thele parts l delcribe the Circles X, V, l,
  33. Sg F, G. P respectirely, that 15, (0 that if the Circle X

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 116. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0136?run=74