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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 138

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  1. the retlected Ligtt rill be more in proportion to the
  2. Lishe than they irere in the incident sreen Light, and
  3. thereby rill dear the reflected Light From green tO
  4. ards cheir C olour. And theretore the red Lead rrill ap
  5. Dear neither red nor green, butota Colour between Both.
  6. In transparentlr coloured Liquors tis obserrable,
  7. that their Colour uses to varr vrith cheir chickenels.
  8. Thus, For instance, a red Liquor in a conical Glals
  9. hreld betrreen the Lighe and the Lre, looks oF a palc
  10. and dilute vellon at the boctom ertrere tis thin, and d
  11. licele hieher erhere tis thicker orors oranse, and erhere
  12. etio RiIl thicker becomes red, and irhere eis thickel
  13. the red is decpest and darkest. For it is to bc conceirea
  14. that such a Liquor Aops the indico makins and violet
  15. makins rare nost casilr, the blue makcing cays moic
  16. difhcultly, the green makins cars Aill more dificule),
  17. and the red makins most difficulelr: And that if the
  18. thickness oF the Liquor be onty (o much a5 Tussicest
  19. Aop a competent number oE the violet makins and in
  20. dico makcins rars, Writhout diminithinq much the num
  21. ber ofthe rest, the rest must (By PFOp. 6. F ib. 2.) Com
  22. pound a pale vello. But it the Liguor De lo muche
  23. thieker asto Hop alo à sreat number ot theblue maliv
  24. rays, and lone of the green makine, the rest must COI
  25. pound an orange; and irhrere it is (0 thick a5 eo A0]
  26. alo a sreat number ot the green makins and a consi
  27. derable number oF the vellon makins, the rest mul
  28. begin to compound a red, and this red must sror deepet
  29. and darker as the vellor makins and oranse makine
  30. cays are more and more Aope by increasins the thick
  31. nels oF the Liguor, (0 that seur rays besdes the red
  32. makins can set throush.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 138. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0158?run=74