Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 19

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2. 191
3. irhite Paper placed behind, it rould paint Rings ot
4. chelame Colour rith those irhrich iere reflected, and
5. oF the bigness ot their immediate Spaces. And From
6. chence the orisin oF these Rinss is manifest; namet),
7. Lhat the Air betreen the Glabes, accordins to its V2-
8. rious thickness, is dispoled in lome places to retlectu
9. and in others to trantmit the Lishe ot any onc CO-
10. lour (a5 you may sec represented in the Fourth Figure) Fis. 4.
11. and in the Came place to retect that oF one COlOUF
12. arhere it transmits that ot another.
13. O BS. XVI.
14. The Squares oF the Diameters oF thele Rines made
15. by ans prismatique Colour vere in arithmetical PrO-
16. srection a5 in the titth Obserration. And the Diameter
17. oF the Sixth Circle, wrhen made by the citrine yellon,
18. and viemed almost perpendicularir, Wras about PaFIS
19. ot an Tnch, or a litele less, agrecable to the sixth Ob.
20. Terration.
21. The precedent Obserrations ivere made with a raret
22. thin medium, terminated by a denser, such a5 was Air
23. Or Water compressed betreen tiro Clases. In those
24. thac tollor are set donn the appearances ot a denser
25. medium thin d rithin a rarer, such a5 are plates ot
26. Muscory slass, Bubbles ot Nater, and some ottier Thin
27. substances terminated on all. sides With AII.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 19. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0191?run=74