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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 13

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  1. Pedred, and chen decreased asain, but not (o much a5
  2. it increased betore. And hence it is evident, that the
  3. transparenes was not onty at the ablolute contaet of the
  4. Gtales, but also irhere they had some licele incerral.
  5. hare Lometimes obserred the Diameter oF that Spot to
  6. Debetreen halE and trro Atth parts ot the Diameter ot
  7. the exterior circumterence ot the red in the Arst cir-
  8. cuit or rerolution ot C olours Wrhen viemed almost per-
  9. Dendicularlr; irhereas irhen viered obliquely it hath
  10. Wrhrolly vanished and become opatce and irhite like the
  11. Other parES OF the GEla(S; wrtrence ic mar be collected
  12. that the CElasses did then Icarcely, or not at all, touch
  13. one another, and that their interval at theperimeter
  14. OF that Spot hen riemed perpendicularir iras about a
  15. tilch or sixth part oE their interral at the circumterence
  16. oF the Caid sed.
  17. OBS. IZ.
  18. By looking throueh the trro contiguous Object.
  19. Glasses, IFound that the interjacent Air extribited Ringo
  20. OE ColOuIS, a5 Weil by transmitting Lightas by rehect-
  21. ins it. The central Spot mas non irtute, and trom it
  22. the order oF the Colours vere vellowitti red; black;
  23. violet, blue, irhite, vello, red; violet, blue, sicen,
  24. vellorr, rec, 190. But chele Colours ivere very faint
  25. and dilure untels irtren the Light was trajected rery
  26. obliquely chroush the Glases: lor by that means they
  27. became preter virid. Onty the Arst yellorvistr red, like
  28. the blue in the Courth Oblerration, was so litele and
  29. Taine as Ccarcely to be discerned. Comparins the co-
  30. loured Rings made by relexion, rrith chele made by
  31. trant-

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 13. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0185?run=74