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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 4

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The machine reads it as

  1. C4
  2. vard Limb the red and vellorr. So that now their order
  3. Trom the central Spot ras rhite, vello, red; black;
  4. violet, blue, irhite, yellorr, red, Oc. contrarr to wrhat
  5. It Wwas Detore.
  6. OBS. TTI.
  7. When the Rings or lome parts ot them appeared only
  8. black and Wrhite, cher vere very distinct and well de-
  9. fined, and the backness seemed as intense as Fhat OE
  10. the central Spot. Alo in the borders oF the RinGS,
  11. erhere the COlours Degan toemerse out oF the irhite-
  12. vels, ther ivere pretty distinct, wrhich made them vi-
  13. Tible to a verr oreat Multitude. I have Cometimes
  14. numbred abore thirtr Succestions (reckonine crery
  15. black and wrhuite Rirs For one Succeltion) and seeu
  16. more of them, Wtrich br realon ot their Cmalne(s I could
  17. nOt nUM BET. But in other PONtiOnS OF thC PTITIMS, at
  18. ertrich the Rings appeared otmans Colours, lcould not
  19. distinguistr abore cistit or nine ot them, and the exte-
  20. rior ot thole ivere verr contuled and dilute.
  21. In these erro Obserrations to sec the Rines distinct,
  22. and rithont anr other Colour than black and wrhite, l
  23. tound it neceltarr to hold my tive at a g00d distance
  24. Erom them. For by approachinsnearer, although in the
  25. Tame inclination of my Fse to the plane ot the RingS
  26. there emeroed à blueitt Colour out ot the wrtrite,
  27. Which by dilatinq it Celt more and more into the black
  28. rendred the Circles less distinet, and lett ce irhite a
  29. litele tinged with red and vellorr. L Found also by
  30. Lookins throush a Dit or oblone hole, utrich Was
  31. parromer than the Puxil oFmy Lye, and held clole to

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 4. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0176?run=74