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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 120

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  2. rion; then aIl theColours in the Norld must De such as
  3. constantly oughe to arile From the original coloritic qua
  4. lities oF the rars whereot the Lishes consist br erhich
  5. those Colours are seen. And theretore if the realon ot
  6. any Colour Wrhat. erer De required, re hare nothins elle
  7. to do then to consider hour the rars in the Suns Light
  8. hare by rellexions or retractions, or other causesbeen par.
  9. ted trom one another, or mixed togethei; or othermileto
  10. find out irtrat Ports ot rars arc in the Light by irhich
  11. that Cotour is made, and in rhat proportion; and
  12. then by the lalt Problem to learn the Colour rhich
  13. oughe to arise by mixins chole rars (Or their COIOurS)
  14. in that proportion. I speak here oF C Olours (0 Far 45
  15. they arise trom Liglt. For ther appear lometimes by
  16. Other caules, a5 wrhen by the porrer ot phantasy ve
  17. sec Colours in a Dream, or amad Man Pees Fhinos betore
  18. him wrhich are not there; or erhenre sec Fire By Arikins
  19. The Fye, or sec Colours like the fiye oF a Peacocks
  20. Feather, by pressins our Rires in cither corner wrhilst
  21. ve look the other war. Where thele and such lite
  22. causes interpose not, the Colour alivars ansivers t0
  23. the Cort or Ports of the rays whereot the Lioht con(iAS,
  24. a5 Itrare constantr Found in Wrhat ever Phaenomena ol
  25. Colours Thare hitherto been able to examin. LMaII in
  26. thefollorrinq Propolitions sive instances ot this in the
  27. Phaenomena ot chietes note.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 120. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0140?run=74