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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 3

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  1. II.
  2. When the Plate oFAir, by curnine the Prisms about
  3. their common AXis, became (0 litele inclined to the in-
  4. cident Ray5, that lome of them besan to be transinit.
  5. tedque there arole in it many Aender ATCS oF C olOUES
  6. irhrich at fixst ere Chaped almost like the Conchoid,
  7. as you sec them delineated in the tirst Figure. And Fis. 1.
  8. Or continuins the motion of the Prisms, thele Arcs in-
  9. Crealed and bended more and more about the laid trans-
  10. parent Spot, till they rvere completed into Circles or
  11. Ringsincompassins it, and afterrards continually sre
  12. more and more contracted.
  13. These ArCSat their Ars appearance rere ot a violet
  14. and blue Colour, and betreen them erere white AECS
  15. OF Circles, Wrhich presentr br continuinu the motion ot
  16. the Prisims became a little tinged in their inmard Limbs
  17. rith red and vellon, and to their outmard Limbs the
  18. blue ras adjacent. So chat che order ot these COIOurS
  19. From the central dark Spoc, mas ac that time irhite,
  20. blue, violet; black; red orange, vellow, Wrhite, blue,
  21. violet, Dc. But the vellorr and red vere much fainter
  22. than the blue and violet.
  23. Themotion ot the Prisims about theis Axis being con-
  24. tinued, these Colours contracted more and more, Crink-
  25. ins torrards the whitenels on cither side ot ic until ther
  26. Totalr vanistred intoit. And then the Circles in thole
  27. Parts appeared black and wrhite, rithout any other CO-
  28. lours intermixed. But by Further movins the Prisims
  29. about, the Colours again emersed out ofthe irhitenets,
  30. the riolet and blue as its inmard Limb, and at its out
  31. A a 2
  32. vard

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 3. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0175?run=74