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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 21

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  3. also trom the lictle darker Spots irtrich vere rittr
  4. IN It.
  5. Behdes the atoresaid coloured Rinos there would
  6. otten appear linall Spors of Colours, alcendins and de
  7. cendins ux and donn the sides ofthe Bubble, by realon
  8. ot lome inequalities in the subsidins of the Water.
  9. And Cometimes Imall Black Spots generated at the sides
  10. rould alcend ux to the larser black Spot at the top ot
  11. cheBubble, and unite with it.
  12. OBS. XVIII.
  13. Because the Colours oF these Bubbles Were mOrC Cx
  14. tended and lively than chole ot the Air thin d betreen
  15. tiro Glasses, and lo more casy to to dittinguistied, L
  16. Chall here sire vou a Further description oC their order,
  17. a5 ther evere obserred in riemins them by reslexion ot
  18. the Skies when oF a erhite Colour, wrhils a black Sub-
  19. Ctance ras placed behind the Bubble. And they were.
  20. these, recu blue; red, blue; red, Blue; Led, Srcen;
  21. red, vellor, oreen, blue, purple; red, vellon, sreen,
  22. blue, violet; red vellor, irtute, blue, black.
  23. Thethree Arst Successions of red and blue ivere very
  24. dilute and dirty, especially the first, irhere the red
  25. Ceemed in a manner to be wrhite. Amons these there
  26. was scarce any other Colour sensible belides red and
  27. blue, only che blues (and principally the sccond blue)
  28. inclined a litle to green.
  29. Che Tourth red iras also dilute and dirty, but not
  30. (0 much. astheformer three; alter that succeeded little
  31. or no vellorr, but a copious green, wtrich at tirst incli-
  32. ned a direle toyello, and chen became à preuy brisque
  33. and

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 21. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0193?run=74