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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 6

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  1. littins up the upper Cilass From the lorver, the diameter
  2. OF the Rinss rould decreale, and the breadth ot their
  3. Orbit encrease, untit their Colours reached succestirely
  4. to the center; and then ther beins ot a considerable
  5. breadth, Icould more calilr dilceen and distinguisr
  6. their Species than betore. And by this means l ob.
  7. serred their Succestion and Ouantity 10 be 25 F0l-
  8. lorveth.
  9. Next, tothe Dellucid central Spot made by the con-
  10. tact ot the Glasses succceded blue, wrhite, vellorr, and
  11. red, the blue ras (o licele in quantier that Icousd not
  12. discern it in the circles made by the Prilms, nor could
  13. I Well distinguittr ans violet in it, but therellor and
  14. red ivere preter copious, and secmed about as much
  15. in extent as the white, and tour or Are times more
  16. than theblue. The next Circuit in order ot COlOurS
  17. immediatelr encompassine thele ivere violet, blue,
  18. srcen, vellor, aud red, and thele vere aIl oF them co-
  19. pious and rivid, exceptins the green, Wrhich as very
  20. litele in quantitr, and seemed much more taint and
  21. dilure than the other Colours. OF the other tour, the
  22. violet ras the least in extent, and the blue less than
  23. the rellor or red. The third Circuit or Order Wras
  24. purple, blue, sreen, vello, and red; in irtrich the
  25. purple scemed more reddisr than the violet in the
  26. tormer Circuit, and the green ras much more conspi-
  27. cuous, beins as brisque and copious as any oF the ottier
  28. Cotours, except the rellor; but the red began to bc
  29. a litele Faded, inclinins very much to purple. AFter
  30. this succeeded thie Fourth Circuit of green and red. Tne
  31. oreen vas very copious and livelr, inclinins on the onc
  32. side to blue, and on the other side to vello. But in
  33. thic

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 6. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0178?run=74