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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 123

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The machine reads it as

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  3. TTature.
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  6. ertrere the Colours meet, and the interjacent wrhite ra-
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  12. blue rill nou become less compounded, and by con-
  13. lequence more intense than betore. And this allo
  14. dFrees rith experience.
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  16. encompassed ith blackness or darkness, the reaion ot
  17. the Colours arisins on the edges is much the Lame, 25
  18. Wrill appear to one that all a little consider it. IF 8
  19. black Object be encompassed with a Wrhite one, the C0-
  20. lours ihich appear chrough the Prisin are tobe derived
  21. From the LightoF chewhite one, spreadins into the RC
  22. sionsoFthe black, and theretore ther appear in a con-
  23. trary order tothat, in irhich they appear irhen a erhite
  24. Objeet is surrounded with black. And the Came is t0
  25. De understood when an Object is viered, vrhole parts
  26. arc lome ofthem less luminous than others. For in the
  27. Borders oF the more and less luminous parts, Colours
  28. oughe alivars by the Came Principles to arise from the
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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 123. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0143?run=74