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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 134

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  1. 3
  2. The Light irtrich comes throush DropsoF Rain by
  3. truo refractions mithout auy reflexion, ouglitto appeai
  4. Aronoest at the distance ot about 26 degrees From the
  5. Sun, and to decar sradually both mays as the distance
  6. from him increales and decreales. And the Tame IS to
  7. be underctood ot Lighe transmitted through spherical
  8. Hail-Rones. And if the Hait bC a litele Hatted, a5 il
  9. otten is, the Light transmitted mar sro lo Arons at
  10. a litele lels distance than that oF 26 degrees, a5 to form
  11. a Flalo about the Sun or Moon; Wrhich HTalo, as otten
  12. 25 the Hail.Rones are duly tioured may be coloured,
  13. and then it must be red within br the least retrangible
  14. cars, and blue without bythe most retransible anes, espe.
  15. cially ilthe FTail- Rones hare opake GElobules oF Sno in
  16. their center to intercept the Light ithin the ITalo (15
  17. Flueenius has obserred) and makce the inside thereotmore
  18. distinetir dehined than it vould otherrise be. For
  19. Tuch Fail-sones, though spherical, by terminatins the
  20. Light by the Sno, may make a tlalo red within and
  21. colourlesswithout, and darker in the red than rith.
  22. ont, a5 Tlalos use to bc. For ofthole rars erhich pals
  23. close br the Snoir the rubritorm ill De least retractedu
  24. and (o come tothe Rye in the directes lines.
  25. Phe Lightrrhich passes chroush a Drop ofrain after
  26. tvo retractions, and three or more resexions, is lcaree
  27. Arons enouch to cause a Pensible Bour; but in thole Cy
  28. linders ofTCe by ertrich Fucenius explains the Parhetiu
  29. il may pechaps be sentibole.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 134. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0154?run=74