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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 14

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  1. 14 7
  2. transmission of the Lioht; I Found that wrhite ras op-
  3. Polite to black, red to blue, vellor to riolet, and green
  4. to a compound ot red and violet. That is, thole parts
  5. OEthe Clals evere black Wrhen looked throuoh, irhich
  6. vrtien looked uxon appeared irhite, and on the con-
  7. trarr. And Co those erhich in one case extribited blue,
  8. did in the other case exhibit red. And the like ot the
  9. Other COIOuES. The manner von have represented in
  10. the chird Figure, ertrere AB, C. D, are the Turtaces ot
  11. the Glases Contionous at F and the black lines be-
  12. tireen them are their distances in arithmetical progres-
  13. Tion, and the Colours wrritten abore arc seen by re-
  14. Aected Lisht, and thole belou by Light transmitted.
  15. DB5. Z.
  16. Wetting the ObjectGlasses a little at their edges,
  17. the rater crept in llowir betrreen them, and theCir-
  18. cles therebr became lels and the Colours more faint:
  19. Insomuch that as the Water crept alone one hale ot
  20. them ac wrhich ic tirst arrived rould appear broken of
  21. Trom che other halt, and contracted into a lels room.
  22. By meaturins them I Found the proportions ot their
  23. Diameters to the Diameters oF the like Circles made by
  24. Air to be about seven to eight, and consequenelr the in-
  25. tervals ot the Cilasses at like Circles, caused by thole
  26. trro mediums Water and Rir, are as about threc toFour.
  27. Perhaps it may be a general Rule, That it any other
  28. medium more or lels dense than ater be compressed
  29. betreen che Cilases, their interrals at the Rings caused
  30. thereby will Bc to their interrals caused by interjacent
  31. AII,
  32. 18. 3.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 14. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0186?run=74