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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 16

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  1. OBS. ZTII.
  2. Appointins au assistant to more the Prism t0 and
  3. Fro about IES AXIS, that aI the Colours might succes-
  4. Sivelr FaII On Chat Part OF the Paper Wtrich I CaW bY
  5. rellexion trom that part ot the Gilalles, irhere the Cir-
  6. cles appeared, (0 that all the Colours might be succel-
  7. sivelr reffected trom the Circles to my Lye Whilst Iheld
  8. it immorable, I. Found the Circles wrhich the red Lioht
  9. made to be maniteslr bioger than those which vere
  10. made by the blue and violet. And it was verr plea-
  11. Tant to sec them gradually sirell or contract accordins
  12. 25 the Colour of the Lighe as changed. The inter-
  13. val oF the Glasses at any of the Rings Wrhen they vere
  14. nade by the utmost red Lioht, was to their interral at
  15. the Pame Ring wrhen made bythe utmost violet, greater
  16. than 25 3 +0 2, and lels than a5 13 +08, by the most ot my
  17. Oblerrations it Wras 25 14 t09. And this proportion
  18. Ccemed reey neariy the lame in all obliquities ot my
  19. tire; untels wrhen tro Prilmsiere made usc ot instead
  20. ot the Object-GitaRes. FOr Then AE a certain orCaL
  21. obliguier ot my Fire, the Rings made by the several
  22. Colours seemed equal, and at a greater obliquity. thole
  23. made by the violet rould De grcater than the same
  24. Rings made by the red. Theretraction oF the Prism
  25. in ehis case cautins the most retrangible rays +0 FaII
  26. more obliguely on that plate of the Aix than the least
  27. retransible ones. Thus the Fxperiment (uccceded in
  28. the coloured Light, rhich ras Cufsiciently Atrons and
  29. copious to make the Rings sensible. And chence it
  30. may be sathered, that il the most retransible and least
  31. retran-

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 16. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0188?run=74