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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 140

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  1. NTorr Wrhils Bodies Decome coloured by reflecting oi
  2. transmittins ehis or that fort ot rays more copiousY thai
  3. the restu it is to be conceired that cher Aop and stisse i1
  4. themselrestherars irhich ther do not rehect or tranlmit.
  5. For if Giold be Foliated and held betreen vour Rye and
  6. cheLisht, theLighe lools blue, and theretore massy Crola
  7. lets into its Body the blue makins cays to be rellecte
  8. to and Fro within it till they be sopt and stised, Wrhit
  9. it relects the vellor-makinq outrrards, and therebs
  10. J0oks vellon. And much alter the Pame manner that
  11. LeaF-Sold is yeltor by reflected, and blue by cransinit.
  12. ced Lisht, and massi Gold is vellor in aII positions o
  13. the Fye; there are lome Liquors as the tincture o
  14. Fionum Nephriticum, and Pome Ports oF Cilals which
  15. eransmit ore Port of Lioht most copioussy, and retlect
  16. another (ort, and thereby look ot Several C OlOurS, ac
  17. cordinq tothe position oF the F ve tothe Light. But i
  18. these Liguors or Glalles vere lo thick and massy that
  19. no Lislit could set throuoh them, L quection not bu
  20. that ther rould like alt other opake Bodies appear ol
  21. one and the same Colour in all pohtions ot ehe fiser
  22. though this lcannot yet attirm br experience. For al
  23. coloured Bodies, (0 Far as my Observation reaches, may
  24. be leen through it made sufticiently chin, and theretoie
  25. are in lome mealure transparent, and ditter only in de
  26. orees of transparency erom tinged transparent Liquors;
  27. chese Liguors, a5 vell as chole Bodies, by a sufticient
  28. chichnels becomins opake. A transparent Body irhicl
  29. looks oF any Colour by transinitred Lient, may alla
  30. look ot the lame Colour by rehlected Lighe, the L1gI
  31. ot that Colour Deine reflected by the Further surtace o
  32. ehe Body, Or by the Air berond it. And thenthe ie
  33. Aected Colour irill be diministred, and perhaps ceale,
  34. MakIBS

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 140. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0160?run=74