Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 117
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The machine reads it as
- T1
- Dc r. trie Cirele r may be L, the Circle t2, theC irele.
- 62, and the Circles r, 9 and p, 5, 6 and 10. Then L
- find Z the common center ot sraritr ot these Circles,
- and throuoh Z drawins the line OP, the point Y FaIIS
- uxon rhe circumterence betmeen F.and l, some thine
- nearer to F. Than to F, and thence L conclude, that the
- Colous compounded ot thele ingredients riil be an
- oranse, vergins a little more to red than to vellor:
- AICO I find that OZ is a little less than one halF ot
- DT, and thence I conclude, that this oranse hath a
- ditele less than halE the Fulness or intenlene(s oF an Un-
- compounded oranse; that is to Cay, that it is such an
- oranse as may be made by mixins an homogenea l oranse
- vith a g0od irhite in the proportion of the line OZ 10
- h. linc Z Y, this proportion beins not ofthe quantities
- oFmixed oranse and irhrite porrders, but ot the quan-
- tities ofthe lighis retlected from them.
- Phis Rule l conceire accurate enoueh for practile,
- choush not mathematicallr accurate; and the truth ot.
- it may be sufticiently proved to sense, by Roppins any
- et the COlours at the Lens in che centh Fxperiment ot
- this BOOk. For the rest ot the Colours wrhich arc not
- Atopped but pass on to the Focus oF the Lens, wii
- there compound either accurately or very neartr such.
- 2Colour a5 by this Rule oueht to retult trom their
- emixture.
- PROFo
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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 117. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0137?run=74