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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 121

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  1. PROD. VITI. PROB. TTI.
  2. By the discovered Properties of Zisht to explain the
  3. Colours made by Prisms.
  4. L et ABC represent a Prilin refractins the Light OF Fig. 12.
  5. chesun, irhicti comes into a dark Chamber through a
  6. HTole F e alnost as broad as the Prilm, and let MIN
  7. reprelent a irtrite Paper on wrhich the retracted Light is
  8. Cast, and suppose the most retransible or deepest violet
  9. makins cays FaIl upon the space PX, the leas retran-
  10. sible or decpest red- makins rays uxon the space VI.
  11. the middle Port betreen the Indico-makins aud blue.
  12. matcins rays upon thespace 2x, the middle Port oF che
  13. Freenmakins rars upon the (paceRe, themidale (Ort
  14. Detreen the vellorr-makins and orange-makrins rays
  15. uxon the (paceSo and other intermediate COrtS upOn
  16. intermediate spaces. For Pothe spaces upon which the
  17. several COrts adeguatelr Fall Wrill br realon et the ditte-
  18. rent retransibilier oF thole COrtS Be one lorver than ano-
  19. ThET. No ifthe Paper MN De Ponear the Prilm thatthe
  20. SpaCeS P T and r do not intertere ith one another, the
  21. distance betrreen them T x ill De illuminated by aII
  22. the lorts oFrars in that proportion to one another wrtrich
  23. ther have at their very tirst comine out ot the Prilin,
  24. and consequentlr be rvhite. But the spaces Pl and n
  25. on cither hand, will not be illuminated by them aIl,
  26. and theretore will appear coloured. And particularly
  27. at P, Wrhere the outmost riolet makins rars Fallalone,
  28. the Colour must be the decpest violet. At Cirhere thC
  29. violet makins and indico makine rays are mixed, it
  30. must

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 121. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0141?run=74