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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 17

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  1. retransible rays had been copious enough to male the
  2. Rinss sensible rithout the mixture oE other rays, the
  3. proportion which here Was 14 to 9 ould hare been a
  4. licile greater, Cuppole 14; Or 14; 109.
  5. OBS. XIV.
  6. WhilE ehe Prisim was turn d about its Axis wict an
  7. uniform motion, to make aII the leverat COlours FaII
  8. luccessirels uxon the Object. Cilastes, and therebr t0
  9. make the Rines contraet and dilate: The contraction
  10. or dilation ot cach Ring thus made by the variation ot
  11. Is Colour ras Criftest in thered, and Nomest in the
  12. violet, and in the intermediate Colours it had inter-
  13. mediate degrees ot celeritr. Comparins the quantity
  14. ot contraction and dilation made by all the degrees ot
  15. each Colour, I Found that it Wras greatest in the red;
  16. less in the rellor, siIl less in the blue, and least in the
  17. violet. And to make as just an estimation asl could ot the
  18. proportions oftheir contractions or dilations, lobserved
  19. that the Wtole contraction or dilation of the Dinmeter
  20. OF any Rins made by aII the degrees oF red, Wras to that
  21. oF the Diameter oF the lame Rine made by aII the de-
  22. siees oFriolet, as about Four to three, or Aire to Four, and
  23. chat wrhen the Lisht ras of the midele Colour betireen
  24. vellorr and sreen, the Diameter ot the Rins Wras very
  25. nearly an arithmetical mean betreen the greatest Dia-
  26. meter ot the Came Ring made by the outmost red, and
  27. the lealt Diameter thereot made by the outmost violet:
  28. Contrary to irhrat happens in the Colours of the oblone
  29. Spectrum made by the retraction ot a Prism, Where the
  30. red ismost contracted, the violet most expanded, and

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 17. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0189?run=74