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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 5

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  1. 5
  2. it parallel to the Prisms, Lcould sec the Cireles much
  3. distincter and risible to a tar greater number than
  4. Otherwile.
  5. OBS. IV.
  6. Pooblerre more nicely br the order ot the Colours
  7. Wvhich arose out ot the white Circles a5 the Rays DC-
  8. came less and lels inclined to the plate ot Air; l took
  9. tiro Object Glasses, the one a Plano-conrex For a Four-
  10. teen-Foot Telescope, and the other a larse double con-
  11. rex For onc ot about fter-Foot; and upon this, larins the
  12. Other rith its its plane-side dornmards, I pressed them
  13. llowlytogether, to make the Colours succeltirely emerse
  14. in the midele ot the Circles, and ehen Romly listed
  15. the upper Glass trom the lorver to make them succet-
  16. Cively vanistr acain in the Came place. The ColouI,
  17. irhich by pressins the Cilasles together emerged last in
  18. the middle oF the other Colours, rould uxon its Arst
  19. appearance look like a Cirele ot a Colour alinost uni-
  20. torm trom the circumterence to the center, and by
  21. comprellins the Clables siil more, gro continuallu
  22. broader until a ner Colour emersed in its center, and
  23. thereby it became a Rins encompallino that new C0-
  24. lOur. And DV compressins the GElastes Rill more, the
  25. Diameter ot this Rins vouid encrease, and the breadtm
  26. oF its Orbit or Perimeter decrease until another nem
  27. Colour emerged in the center ot the last: And IO OI
  28. until a third, a Tourth, a fitth, and other Follorina
  29. nem Colours successirely emersed there, and became
  30. Rinos encompassino the innermost Colour, the last ot
  31. rhich as the black Spot. And, on the contrarY, by
  32. littins

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 5. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0177?run=74