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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 143

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  1. examin the reason ol che Colours made by Prilins, L
  2. retracted this compounded Beam oF LieHE Z Y ricli
  3. another Prilim HITIKh, and thereby cast theulual pril
  4. matick Colours PORS Puxon che P’aper I. V placed DC.
  5. hind. And then by Pcoppins anz ot the COlOurs p, 4.
  6. r, S, t, at the Lens, l Found that the tame Colour vould
  7. vanistr at the Paper. 50 it the purple P ras Copped al
  8. the Lens, the purple P uxon the Paper rould vanistr,
  9. and the rest oF the Colours vould remain unaltered,
  10. unless pertraps the blue, (0 tar as lome purple latene in
  11. it at the Lens mioht De separated From it by the Fol-
  12. Lowins retractions. And lo by interceptins the sreen
  13. upon the Lens, the green R upon the P’aper vould va-
  14. nistrus and (o oEthe rest; irhich plainly chews, that a5
  15. the wrhite Beam oF Light Z Y was compounded ot se-
  16. ve Lishts rariousr coloured at the P. ens, (0 thel0.
  17. lours irhich afterrards emerse out of it by new retra-
  18. ctions are no other than thole ot wrhich its Wrlitenels
  19. ras compounded. The refraction oF the Prisim HIIK
  20. kh generates the ColOUrS PORST upon the PaPeF,
  21. noc by changins the coloritic qualities ot the rays, but
  22. by separatins therays vrhich had the rerr Came coloritic
  23. qualities betore ther entered the compolition ot the re-
  24. tracted Beam Wrhite otLightZV. For otherwisethe rays
  25. erhich ivere oF one Colour at the Lens misht be ot anon
  26. ther upon the Paper, contrary to what ve find.
  27. So again, to examin the reason of the COlOurS OF Ra-
  28. cural Bodies, Iplaced such Bodies in the Beam oF LishE
  29. XY, and Found that they ail appeared there oF thole
  30. their omn Colours wrhich they have in Day.light, and
  31. that those C Olours depend upon the rays wrhich had tha
  32. lame COlours at cheLens betore ther entred the compo.
  33. Etion

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 143. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0163?run=74