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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 133

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  1. it thac Angle become lels (luppoie by depressins the
  2. Globe to F.) there ill appear other COlours, vellorr,
  3. orcen and blue successively in the lame side ot theClobe.
  4. Butifthe Ansle be made about 50 degrees (suppose by
  5. liftins up theClobe to G)chere Wrill appear a red Colour
  6. in that side of the Clobe torrards the Sun, and it the
  7. Ansle De made sreater (suppole by littins up the Cilobe
  8. toHI) the red rill turn successively tothe other Colours
  9. Vellorr, sreen and blue. Phelame thins lhave tried by
  10. lettins a Cilobe rest, and raitins or depressins the Lye,
  11. Or otheririse movins it to make the Ansle ot a just
  12. magnitude.
  13. l have heard it represented, that it the Light oF a
  14. Candle De retracted by a Prilin to the fiyc; Wrhen the
  15. blue Colour Falls upon the Fire the Spectator MaI lec
  16. red in the Prisin, and wrhen the red Falls upon the Fye
  17. he MaIl see blue; and if this irere certain, the COlours
  18. oF the Clobe and Rain borr ousht to appear in a CON-
  19. trary order to wrhat re find. But the Colours OF the
  20. Canele beins very Faint, the mistakce leems to arile trom
  21. the difficuler oF discernins irtrat Colours FaII on the
  22. Fre. FOr, on thecontrary, Phare Lometimes had Oc
  23. cation to observe in the suns Light retracted by a Prilm,
  24. that the Spectator alivars sees that Colour in the Prilm
  25. ertrich Falls uxon his Fve. And the lame Phare Found
  26. true allo in Canele Light. For Wvhen the Prilm is mo-
  27. ved llo ly trom theline which is drawndireetly fromthe
  28. Candle to the Fye, the red appears Arst in the Prism and
  29. thentheblue, and theretore cach ot them is seen When
  30. it falls uxon the fiye. For thered pastes overthelive
  31. Rrs, and then the bluE.
  32. L. L1C.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 133. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0153?run=74