Leibniz Legible

Machine transcription of the Leibniz Nachlass

Search the Nachlass

Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 136

Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. Mean line confidence on this page: 0.92.

Original at the GWLB · Page image · Annotations (IIIF) · Download text

The machine reads it as

  1. C
  2. 136
  3. Aectedthan the other Coloursred and riolet, and (o ofthe
  4. rest. But tomake these Fxperimentsthe more manifest,
  5. luch Bodies ouoht to be chosen as trave the Fullest and
  6. most virid Colours, and tro ot thole Bodies are to DC
  7. compared together. Thus, tor instance, it Cinnaber
  8. and ultra marine blue, or Pome other FuII blue be
  9. held together in the homoseneal Lighe, ther rill both
  10. appear red, but the Cinnaber ill appear oF a Aronsl)
  11. luminous and resplendent red, and the ultra marine
  12. blue oF a Faint oblcure and dark red; and it ther be
  13. held togecher in the blue homogeneal Light they will
  14. both appear blue, but the ultra maxine will appear o
  15. a Aronsly luminous and resplendent bluc, and the
  16. Cinmaber oF a Faine and dark blue. Which puts it out
  17. ot dispute, that the Cinnaber restects the red Light
  18. muchinore copiously than the ultra marine doth, and
  19. the ultra marine retlects the blue Lioht much more co
  20. piousr chan the Cinnaber doth. The lame Fxperiment
  21. nar De tryed succestuily rith red Lead and Indico, ot
  22. Writh any other trro coloured Bodies, iF due allorvance
  23. be made for che ditferent Arensth or Wreaknels oF theis
  24. Colour and LioHt.
  25. And a5 therealon oF the Colours ot natural Bodies is
  26. erident by chese Fxperimenes, lo it is Further contirmed
  27. and put past dispute by the turo trst Lxperiments ofthe
  28. tirs BO0k, Wrhereby trras proved in tuch Bodies that
  29. the rellected Lighe Which ditter in Colours do dister also
  30. in degrees ot retransibilier. For chence itS CerFaim,
  31. that lome Bodies retleet the more retransible, othere
  32. the lels retransible rassmore copiousty.

Cite

Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 136. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0156?run=74