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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 118

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  1. PROP. VII. THEOR. V.
  2. Al the Colours in the Oniverse rehich are made by Fiehbu
  3. and depend not on the porver of imacination, are
  4. either the Colours of homoseneat Pishts, or compoundec
  5. of these and that either accurately or very nearly, ac
  6. cordine to the Rule of the feresoine Problem.
  7. For it has been proved (in Prop. I. Lib. 2.) That the
  8. changes oF Colours made by retractions do not arilé
  9. trom any new modifications of the rays imprest by thole
  10. retractions, and by the various terminations ot light
  11. and Mraco, as hasbeen the constant and general Opi
  12. nion otPhilolophers. Ithas allo been proved that the
  13. sereral Colours ot the homogeneal rays do constantl)
  14. antiver to their degrees ofretransibilitr, (ProP. I. F ib. 1.
  15. and CrOD. 2. F ib. 2.) and that cheir desrees ot retransI
  16. bilies cannot be chansed by retractions and reflexions,
  17. (PrOp. 2. Lib. 1.) and by consequence thât thole their
  18. Colours are likerile immutable. It has allo been pro.
  19. ved directis by retractins and reflectins homoseneat
  20. Lishes apart, that their Colours cannot be chanced,
  21. (PrOP. 2. Fib. 2.) IE has been proved al(o, that wrhen
  22. the sereral Corts ot rars are mixed, and in croctins pals
  23. throuoh the lame space, ther do not act on onc anothei
  24. l0 a5 to chanse cach others coloritick qualities, (L. Xper.
  25. 10. Fib. 2.) Dut by mixins their actions in the senlo
  26. rium beget a lenlation difterins trom irhat cither rouid
  27. do apart, that is a senlation oF a mean C. Olour Betreen
  28. racir proper Colours; and particularly erhen by che
  29. concourse and mixtures oF all Corts ot cays, a wrhite
  30. COlOus

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 118. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0138?run=74