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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 20

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  1. DBS. AYCL.
  2. IF a Bubble be Blonn writh Nater Arst made tenacious
  3. by dissolrins a licele Soap in il, tis a common Obser-
  4. rarion, that alter a wrhile it will appear tinged with a
  5. sreat rarietr ot Colours. To detend thele Bubbles
  6. From beins axitated by the external Rir (erhereby their
  7. Colours are irregularty mored onc amons another, (0
  8. thatno accurate Oblervation can De iade ot theII) 25
  9. Toon a5lhad blonn any ot them I covered it with a
  10. clear Class, and by that means its Colours emerged in
  11. a verr regulai order, like so manr concentrick Rings
  12. incompastins the cop oE the Bubblc. And as the
  13. Bubble grer thinner by ehe continual subsidins oF the
  14. Water, these Rings dilated llorrly and over- spread thc
  15. ertrole Bubble, descendins in order tothebottom ol it,
  16. ertrere they vanistred successivelr. In the mean Wrhile,
  17. alter all the Colours irere emerged at the top, there
  18. ore in the Center of the Rines a CmaIl round black
  19. Spoc, like that in the Ars Oblerration Which conti-
  20. nuall dilated it SelE tilL IE DCCaME LOICtIIES MOTC FHan
  21. ox 2 ot an Inch in breadth betore the Bubble BTOke:
  22. AFArK Ichoughechere had been no LishereRected From
  23. the Water in that place, but oblerving it more cu-
  24. riouslr, I Car ithin it sereral Cinaller round SpOtS,
  25. ertrich appeared much blacker and darker than the rect,
  26. Wrherebr lHne that there iras lome reflexion at the
  27. other places irhich ivere not (0 dark as those Spots.
  28. And by Further eryal Itouud chatl could sec the lmases
  29. ot lome thines (as oF a Candle or thc Sun) very faint-
  30. Ey refsected, noc ontu trom the sreat black Spot, but
  31. aHC

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 20. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0192?run=74