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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 126

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  1. (126
  2. Thither, but erery irhere betreen t and c, many ol
  3. thele rars riil set through the base and be retracted;
  4. and the lame is to be understood ot the meanly reFFAN-
  5. sible rars on cither side ofthe point r. Whence it Fol
  6. lorrs, that the base oF the Prilm must everr irhere BC-
  7. trcen t and B, by a total reflexion oF aII Corts OF rayS to
  8. the Fye, look irhite and brioht. And every irhere
  9. petrreen and C by realon ofthe trantinission ot many
  10. cars oferery lort, look more pale, obscure and dark.
  11. But at L, and in ottier places betireen pand E, Wrhere
  12. all the more retransible rays are refected to the Fye,
  13. and mans ot the lels retransible are transmitted, the
  14. excels oFthe most retrangible in the reRected Lioht will
  15. tinse that Lioht rith their Colour, wrhich is violet and
  16. blue. And this hrappens by takins the line C. pPFB anV
  17. irhere betreen the ends ot the Prilm II CF and F I.
  18. PROP. TZ. PROB. IV.
  19. By the discovered Properties of Fisht to explain ibe
  20. Colours of the Rain- b020.
  21. Phis Bor never oppears but irhere it Rains in the
  22. Sun-hine, and may be made axtificially by spoutine up
  23. Water irhich may break alost, and scacter into DrOpS,
  24. and Fall dorn like Rain. For the Sun ining upon thele
  25. Drops certainly caules the Bor to appear to a Specta
  26. tor Handins in a due position to the Rain and Sun. And
  27. dence it isno agreedupon, that this Bou ismade by
  28. retraction of the suns Light in Drops oF Falling Rain.
  29. This as understood by lome ot the Ancients, and ot
  30. late more tully discorered and explained by the Famous
  31. Antonius

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 126. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0146?run=74