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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 23

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  2. Wrhiteness. And this whitenels, it the Water ras very
  3. tenacious and well. tempered, vould Aonly spread and
  4. dilate it selF orer the oreater part ot the Bubble; con-
  5. einually gromine paler at the cop, irhere at lensth it
  6. rould crack in manr places, and those cracks, as ther
  7. dilated, rould appear ot a prettr eood, but y et obseure
  8. and dark sky-colour; the itite betreen the blue Spots
  9. diministrins, until it resembled the threds ot an irre
  10. sular Net-Work, and soon alter vanistred and lett aI
  11. the upper parE OF the BubblC oF the Paid darte blue
  12. ColOur. And this ColOur, atter the atorelaid manner,
  13. dilated it selE dornivards, until sometimes it hath
  14. Oversoread the Wrhole Bubble. In the mean wrhile at
  15. the cop, Wrhich was ot a darkeer blue than the bottom,
  16. and appeared alto tuil ot manz round blue Spots, lome-
  17. ching darker than the rest, there ould emerse one
  18. Or more very black Spots, and richin chole other SpOtS
  19. OF an incenser blackness, wrhich I mentioned in the
  20. Former Obserration; and these continually dilated
  21. themlelres until the Bubble Broke.
  22. TF EHC WVater WaS NOE verr cenacious the Black SpOtS
  23. rouid break Forth in the irhite, without auy sentible
  24. intervention ot the blue. And Lometimes ther mouild
  25. break Forth rithin the precedent vellou, or red, Or
  26. perhraps rithin the blue ot the second order, betore
  27. the intermediate Colours had time to displar them-
  28. Telves.
  29. By this description vou may perceire hou great an
  30. affinier these Colours hare rith those ot Air descri-
  31. bed in the Fourth Obserration, although set donn in
  32. a contrary order, by reason that ther begin to appear
  33. artien the Butoble is thickest, and are most conre
  34. niently

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 23. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0195?run=74