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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 139

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  1. OEchis kind is an Experiment lately related to me by
  2. MIP. Flalley, erho, in dirins decp into the Sea, Found
  3. in a clear Sun Phine day, that irtien he ras Cunk many
  4. Lathoms deep into che Water, theupper part oF his
  5. Hland in irtrich the Sun one directis through the
  6. Nater looked oF a red Colour, and the under part ot
  7. his Lland illuminated by Lisht reflected trom the Water
  8. belor looked oreen. For thence it may be sathered,
  9. that the Sea- rater reflects back the violet and blue
  10. makcins rars most catilr, and lets thered makins rays
  11. Palo most ticely and copioully to creat depths. FOr
  12. chereby thesuns direct Lisht at all sreat depths, by
  13. realon ot the predominatins red makins rays, mult
  14. appeur red; and the greater the depth is, the Fuller
  15. and intenter mustthat red be. And at such dexths a5
  16. the violet makins rays scarce Denetrate unto, the blue-
  17. makins, srcen makcins and vellormakins rayS beIM
  18. reslected trom beloir more copiously chan thered makIM
  19. Ones, must compound a sreen.
  20. Nou it chere be tiro Liquors of Fui Colours, sup-
  21. Pole a red and a bluc, and Both oE them (0 thick a5
  22. lustices to make their COlours sufficiently FuIl; though
  23. cither Liquor De Cutticienely transparent apart, Vet
  24. vill vou not be able to see through both together. LOr
  25. it ouly thered makins cays pals through one Liquor,
  26. and onlr the blue makcins chroush the other, no rayS
  27. can pass chroush both. This MP. Hoote tried calually
  28. rith Glals redges filled rith red and blue Liguors,
  29. and ras surprized at the unexpected erent, the realon
  30. oFit beine then untnomn; irhich mates me trust the
  31. more to his Lxperiment, thoush lhare not eryed it
  32. My PeIE. But he that rould repeat it, must take care
  33. the Liquors be ol very 800d and FuII COlOurS.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 139. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0159?run=74