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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 26

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  1. 26
  2. poured on the sround, where they may cool in the
  3. open Air, hare, like the Colours oF Water-bubbICS,
  4. been a litele charged by viewins them at divers ob-
  5. liguities, and particularly that a deep blue, or violet,
  6. irtren riered very obliquelr, hath been changed to a
  7. decp red. But the chanses ot these C OIOUES are nOt (O
  8. sreat and sensible as of thole made by Water. For the
  9. Scoria or vitrihed part ot the Metal, Wrhich mort Me-
  10. tals wrhien heated or melted do continuallu protiude,
  11. and send ont to their Curtace, and irtrich by coverine
  12. the Metals in torm ot a thin slastr skin, caules thele
  13. Colours, is much denter than Water; and I And that
  14. the chanse made by the obliquation of the Fycis lcast
  15. in Colours ot the densest thin substances.
  16. OBS. XX.
  17. A5 in the ninth Obserration, Pohere, the Bubble, Dy
  18. cransmitted Light, appeared ot a contrarr C olour to
  19. that irhich it exhibited by rellexion. Thus Wrhen the
  20. Bubble being looked on by the L ight ot the Clouds re-
  21. Aected From it. seemed red at its apparent circumte-
  22. rence, it the Clouds at the lame time, or immediatel
  23. alter, vere viered through it, the Colour at its cir-
  24. cumference mould De blue. And, on the contrary.
  25. ertren by resected Lioht it appeared blue, it vouid ap-
  26. Dear red by transmitred Lignt.
  27. OBS. Z XI.
  28. By wetting very thin plates oF Muscory-sta(S, Whote
  29. Thinnels made ehe like COlOurs appear, the COlOUTS
  30. DecaMC

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 26. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0198?run=74