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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 124

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  1. C124
  2. WNhat is said oF Coloursmade by Prisins may be catily
  3. applied to Colours made by the Crlasses ol Pelescopesi
  4. or Microlcopes, or by the humours ofthe Ryc. Forit
  5. the Object. Sla(s oF a Pelescope De thicker on one side
  6. than on the ottier, or it one halE ot the Cla(S, Or One
  7. halFot the Pupil ofthe Fye De corered rith any opake
  8. substance: the Object-stals, or that part of it or oF the
  9. Eyerrhichis not corered, may be considered a5 a Wedse
  10. ith crooked sides, and erery Wedse oF Cilals, or other
  11. vellucid substance, has the effect of a Prism in retractins
  12. che Lishe irhich passes through it.
  13. NTou the Colours in theoth and Toth Fxperiments
  14. OE the hrst Part arise From the ditferent refexibilier ob
  15. Lighe is crident by irhrat ras there laid. But it is obler-
  16. vable in the oth Lixperiment, that Wrhils the suns di
  17. rect Light is vellor, the excels of the bluc-makins
  18. rays in the reflected Beam oF Light MN, suttices only
  19. to brins that vellorr to a pale wrhite inclinins to blue,
  20. and nocto tinse it with a manitestls blue Colour. F0
  21. obtain theretore a better blue, Luled instead ot the yel
  22. lon Light oFthe Sun the white Lisht ot the Clouds, by
  23. rarvins a little the eexperiment a5 Follons.
  24. EX PE R. XVF.
  25. Let HFC represent a Prilm in the open Air, and 5
  26. thefre ottheSpectator, riemins the Clouds by theis
  27. Lighe comins into the Prilm at the plane side FICK
  28. and retlected in it by us bale FlF. LC, and thence soin8
  29. out through its plain sde IIHLR to the Fiye. And
  30. Wrhen the Prilm and Fre are conveniently placedus lo
  31. that che Ansles ot incidence and sellexion at the bale
  32. may
  33. 6 15.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 124. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0144?run=74