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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 18

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  1. 1
  2. 18
  3. in the midst oF all the Colours is che contine OF BrCCH
  4. and blue. And hence I Peem to collect that the thick-
  5. nesses oF the Air betreen the Glases there, Wrhere the
  6. Ring is successively made by the limits of the sire prin-
  7. cipal Colours (red, vellorr, sreen, blue, violet) in order
  8. (that is, by the extreme red, by the limit ot red and
  9. velloir in the midale ot the oranse, by the limit ot
  10. vellorr and sreen, by the limit of sreen and blue, by
  11. the limit of blue and violet in the midale oF the in-
  12. dico, and by the extreme violet) are to one auother
  13. very nearly as the six lensths ot a Chord irhich Cound
  14. the notes in a Sixth Major, sol, la mi, fa sol, la. BUF
  15. it aorees Lomethins becter rith the Oblerration to CaY,
  16. that the chicknesses oF the Rir betmeen the CTlaRes there,
  17. Wrtere the Rings are successirely imade by the limies oF
  18. theseren Colours, red, oranse, rello, sreen, bluc, in-
  19. diso, violet in order, are to one another as the CuDe-
  20. r0ots oF the Squares oF the cioht lensths ot a Chord,
  21. irhich Cound the notes in an eistth, sol, la fu- sol, la-
  22. mi fa sol; that 15, a5 the C uDC-TOOtS OF the SquareS
  23. 2 2 3
  24. 0
  25. aC The NumberS, Ly 9 63 a3 33 33 103 2
  26. OB S. XV.
  27. Thele Rings ere not oF varions Colours like thole
  28. made in the open AIT, but appeared aIL over oF that
  29. prismatique Colour only rith ertrich they evere illu
  30. minated. And by projectins the prismatique Colours
  31. immediately upon theClases, I Found that the LighE
  32. ertrich fell on the dark Spaces ertrich ivere becreen
  33. the coloured Rings, as transmitted chrough the
  34. Glasles rithout any rariation ot COlOUT. FOr On a
  35. Wvhite

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 18. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0190?run=74