Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 15

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2. Air, asthe Sies alC trhich meature the retraction made
3. out oF that medium into AIT.
4. OBS. XI.
5. Vhen the Water as betreen the Cilases, iF L PTCS
6. led the upper GlaIs variously at its edses to make the
7. Rines more nimbly from one place to another, a little
8. ertite Spot vould immediatelr tollo the center ot
9. chem, irtrich upon ercepins in oE the ambient Water
10. into that place vould presenely vanit. LES appearanCe
11. Wras Tuch as interiacent Air vould have caused, and it
12. extribited the Tame COlours. But it ras nat AII, FOr
13. irhrere any bubbles oFAir vere in themater they mould
14. not ranistr. The reffexion must have rather been caused
15. by a subtiler medium, irhich could recede throush. thc
16. Gilasses at the crcepins in ot the rater.
17. OB5. XII.
18. These Obserrations rrere made in the open AIr. BUF
19. Further to examin the effects ot coloured Lighe Fallins
20. on theGrlasses, Idarkened the Room, and viered them
21. by rellexion of the Colours ot a Prism cast on a Sheet
22. oF irhite Paper, my Pye beins (0 placed that l could.
23. sec the coloured Paper br reflexion in the. GilaBeS, 25.
24. in a Lookins- sla(s. And by this means the Rings BC-
25. came distineter and risible to a far greater number than
26. in the open Air. Ihave Pometimes seen more than
27. civenty ot them, whereas in the open Air L could HOC
28. disceen abore etCHE OF NINC.
29. d ad

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 15. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0187?run=74