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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 141

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  1. T4I
  2. makcins the Body very thick, and pitchins ic on che
  3. Back. Side to diminim the reflexion of its further surtace,
  4. lo that the Lighe reflected trom che tingins particles
  5. may predominate. In luch cales, the Colour otthe re-
  6. Aected Light rill De apt to vary From that of thelighe
  7. cransmitted. But irhence it is that tinsed Bodies and
  8. Liquors rellect lome Cort oFrays, and intromit or trant-
  9. mit other lorts, Bail be Paid in the next B0Ok. In thIS
  10. Propolition I content my (elEto hare put it past dispute,
  11. that Bodies have such Proverties, aud TheNCE aDDCAI.
  12. coloured.
  13. PROP. ZT. PROB. VI.
  14. By mixins coloured Fiehts to compound a Beam of Light
  15. of the same Colour and LTature roith a Beam of the Suns
  16. direct Lioht, and therein to experience the truth. of the
  17. foresoine Propositions.
  18. Let AB C abC represent a Prilm by irhich theSun SFi8. 16.
  19. Liont let into a dark Chamber throush the HIole L, iMav.
  20. De retracted torards the LenS MNI, and paint upon it
  21. At P, 4, F, S andt, theulual Colours violet, blue, sreen.
  22. vellorr and red, and let the diversine cays by there-
  23. Fraction of this Lens conrerge again torards Z, and
  24. there, by themixture oF all thole their COlours, compound
  25. a Wrtrite accordins to what was hernabore. Then let
  26. another Prilin DF. C,dC8, Parallet to the Former, DC
  27. Placed at X, to retraet that White Lighe upmards to-
  28. Wards Y. L et the retractinq Angles oF the Prilms,
  29. and their diltances From the Lens De equal,u (o that thc.
  30. cays irtrich converoed trom the Lens torards X, and.
  31. rithont retraction, rould there hare crosled and. diver-
  32. sed aeain, may by the retraction oEthe lecond Prilin be.
  33. reduced.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 141. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0161?run=74