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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 122

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  1. must be a violet inclinins much to indico. At R erhere
  2. che violet makins, indico makins, blue makins, and
  3. one halE oF the sreen-makins rars are mixed, their Co.
  4. Jours must (by the construction of the second Problem)
  5. compound a middle Colour Detreen indico and blue.
  6. AF S Where all the rays aie mized except the red-mi
  7. kins and oranse makcins, their C Olours ousht by the lame
  8. Ruleto compound à faint blue, vergins more to greeH
  9. chan indie. And in the proorels trom S to T, this blue
  10. willoror more and more taint and dilute, till at l,
  11. artrere allthe Colours besin to be mixed, it end In
  12. erhitenels.
  13. Soasain, on the other side oFthe Wrhite at T, irhere
  14. che least retransible or utmost red makins rays are alone
  15. the Colour mustDe the deepest red. AF o the mixture
  16. ot red und oranse rrill compound a red inclinins 13
  17. orange. Ace the mixture oF red, oranse, vello, and
  18. one half, oF the ereen must compound a middle C.Olous
  19. betreen oranse and vellorr. AFx the mixture oF alt
  20. Colours but violet and indico rill compound a Faint
  21. velloir, versins more to green than to oranse. And
  22. chis yellor ill grour more taint and dilute continuaIIs
  23. in its progrels Trom x to n, Where by a mixture oF all
  24. COrts oF rars it will become irhite.
  25. Phese Colours ougheto appear rere the Suns Light
  26. pertectly irhute: But because it inclines to vellor, theex-
  27. cels oF the vellom makcins rays Whereby tis tinged rrich
  28. thatCOlour, beins mixed with the taint blue betreen
  29. Sand I, rill dra it to a Fdint sreen. And (0 the
  30. Colours in order trom P to J oushe to be riolet, indico,
  31. blue, very taint green, Wrhite, taint vellor, oranse, red.
  32. Lhus it is by che computation: And ther chat pleale 10
  33. rien

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 122. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0142?run=74