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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 144

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  1. sition oF thatBeam. Thus, For instance, Cinnaber illumi-
  2. nated by this Beam appears of the lame red Colour as in
  3. Daylight; and it at ihe Lens rou intercept the green-
  4. makins and blue makins raps, its redness will become
  5. more tuIl and livelr: But it rou there intercepe the red
  6. makins cars, it rill noc anr longer appear red, but be-
  7. come vellor or sreen, or ot Lome other COlOur, ACcOr
  8. dins to the lorts ot cars Which vou do not intercept.
  9. 50 Giold in this LiohE Z Y appears oF the Came velton
  10. Colour as in Dar-liehe, but by interceptins at the L ens a
  11. duc quantier of the vellon-makine cays it rill appeai
  12. Wrtrite like Silver (a5 l hare erved) ertich Mews that its
  13. vellornessariles trom the excels ot the intercepted rays
  14. ringing that whiteness rith their Colour Wrhen ther are
  15. let pa(5. So the intution oF Fionum Nephriticum (a5 l
  16. trare allotrred) wrhen held in enis Beam OF LioHEX Y,
  17. looks blue by the reflected part ot the Lighe, and vellon
  18. by chetransinitted part ot it, as when tisviemed in Day-
  19. lioht, but if rou interceptthe blue at the. Lens the infir
  20. tion irill lose its refected blue Colour, Wrhil its tran-
  21. mitted red remains pertect and br the loss ofsome blue
  22. mmakins cars whererith it was allared becomes more in-
  23. tense and FuII. And, on thecontrary, if the red and orange
  24. makins rays De intercepted at Pens, the infusion vii
  25. lole ies transmitted red, whilR its blue vrill remain and
  26. become more Full and perfect. Which Cers, that the in-
  27. fution does not tinge the rarsrith blue and vellorr, but
  28. ouly transinit those most copioully wrhich rvere red- ma-
  29. king betore, and reflects thole molt copiouslr irhich vere
  30. blue makino betore. And alter the lame manner may the
  31. reaIons oF other Phaenomena be examined, by eryins
  32. ehem in this artificial Beam oF LishtXL.
  33. V

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 144. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0164?run=74