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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 22

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  1. (22
  2. and good wiltom oreen, and attermards changed to a
  3. bluit Colour; but there succceded neither blue nOr
  4. violet.
  5. The stch red at first inclined rery much to purple,
  6. and alterards became more brighe and brisque, but
  7. Vet nOF rery pure. This ras succeeded ith a very
  8. brighit and intense vellor, wrhich iras bue lictle in
  9. quantity, and soon chansed to sreen: But that srcen
  10. ras copious and Pomethins more pure, deep and lively,
  11. than the tormer oreen. Atter that followed an excel-
  12. lent blue ot a brighe stey-colour, and then a purple,
  13. Wrhrich iras less in quantier than the blue, and much
  14. inclined to red.
  15. ThC AXtH Red WaS at APK OF a very Fair and lively
  16. Scarlet and Coon atter ot a brionter Colour, Deins
  17. verr pure and brisque, and the best ot aii the
  18. reds. Then alter a lively oranse Folloed an intense
  19. bright and copious vellor, irtrich ras alo the best
  20. oF all the yelloirs, and this chansed Arst to a sreenisi
  21. vellour, and then to a greenittr blue; but tho grCen
  22. betireen the vellor and the blue, us very licele and
  23. dilute, scemins rather a sreenitm erhite than a green.
  24. The bluc irtich succeeded became verr sood, and ot a
  25. very tair bright stey- colour, but vet Pomethins inferior
  26. to the former blue; and the violet ras intense and
  27. deep rith little or no rednels in it. And less in quan-
  28. tier than the blue.
  29. In the last red appeared a tincture oF scartet next
  30. to violet, irhich Coon chansed to a briohter C OlOur,
  31. inclinins to an oranse; and the rellon irtrich tollored
  32. ras at trst preter good and livelr, but altervards it
  33. orem more dilute, until by degrées it ended in perfect
  34. orhite.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 22. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0194?run=74