Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 1

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7. Observations concernine the Reflexions, Refractions, and
8. Colours of thin transparent Bodies.
9. I has been obserred by others that transparent
10. Substances, as Gla(S, Water, AIr, 1c. Wrhen made
11. verr thin by beins blonn into Bubbles, or othermile
12. Formed into Plates, do extribit rarious COlOUES ACCOI-
13. dins to their rarious chinness, although at a greater
14. thieknels ther appear very clear and colourlels. In
15. the Former Book I Forbore to treat ot thele C Olours,
16. becaule they scemed ot a more difficult consideration,
17. and ivere not necessarr For ectablitins the Properties
18. ot Light there discoursed ol. But becaule they may
19. conduce to Further discoreries for completins the
20. Pheory ot Lighe, especially a5 to the constitution ot
21. The pares ot natural Bodies, on Wrhich their Colours or
22. lranspareney depend: I have here let donn an ac-
23. count oF them. T0 render this Discourse Chort and
24. distinct, Phave sirst described che principal ot my
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26. Obter-

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 1. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0173?run=74