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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 137

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  1. And that this is not only a true realon of thele C0-
  2. COurS, but eren the only realon may appear further
  3. trom this consideration, that the Colour ot homogeneal
  4. Lisht cannot be chansed by the restexion oE natural
  5. Bodies.
  6. for it Bodies by refexion cannot in the least change
  7. the C Olour oF any one sort ot rayS, ther cannot appear
  8. coloured by any ocher means than by reflectins thole
  9. ertrich cither arc of their omn Colour, or wrhich by
  10. mixture nust produce it.
  11. But in trying Experiments of this kind care must be
  12. had that the Lighe De sufficieney homoseneal. For il
  13. Bodies be illuminated by the ordinary prismatick CO-
  14. lours, they ill appear neither ot their omn day. light
  15. COlourS, nor oF the Colour oF the Light cast on them,
  16. but oF lome midele Colour betreen both, 25 I hare
  17. Found by Lxperience. Thus red Leud (For instance)
  18. illuminated erith the ordinary prismatiek ereen iil
  19. not appear cither red or green, but Oranse Or vellor,
  20. Or Detreen vellorr and oreen accordinsly, as the oreen
  21. Liont by irhich tis illuminated is more or less com-
  22. Pounded. For because red Leud appears red wrhen il.
  23. luminated rith wrhite Lighe, Wrherein aIl COrts OF rays
  24. are equally mixed, and in the green Light aIl POrts of
  25. raysare not equaliy mixed, the excels ot the vellon-
  26. makcins, sreen makins and blue making rays in the
  27. incident green Lighe, rill cause thole rays to abound
  28. lo much in the refected Light as to draw the Colour
  29. trom red torrards their Colour. And because the rec
  30. Lead reflects the red makins rays most copiouss in
  31. proportion to their number, and next alter them the
  32. oranse makins and vellor. makins rayS; these rars in
  33. thC

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 137. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0157?run=74