Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 27
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- became more faint and languid; especially by wettins
- ehre plates on that hide oppolite tothe Lve: But Lcoutd.
- not perceire any variation ot their species. So then
- the thickness ot a plate requisite to produce any C0
- Tour, depends outr on the densier ot the plate, and
- not on that of the ambient medium: And hence, by the
- Toch and rbth Obserrations, mar be known thethick-
- nels irhich BubbleS OFWater, or Plates oF Muscory.
- BalS, Or Other substances, have at any C Olour Pio.
- duced by them.
- OBS. XXII.
- A thin transparent Body, irhich is denser than its
- ambient medium, exhribits more brisque and virid C0-
- Tours than chat irtrich is so much rarer; 25 l have
- particularly observed in the Aic and Gila(S. For blon-
- ins Class very thin at a Lamp. Furnace, thole plates
- incompassed rith Air did exhibit Colours much
- more ririd than thole ot Air made thin betreen tro
- Crlases.
- OB5. ZXIII.
- Comparins the quantier ot Light reflected From the
- several Rings, I Found chac it ras most copious trom
- the Arst or inmost, and in the exterior Rings De-
- came sradually less and lels. AIIO the irhitenels ot
- thC Arst Rins as Sronger than chat reftected from
- thole pares oF the thinner medium irhich ivere with
- out the RinES; as I could manifestly perceire by rien-
- ins ac a dittance che Rings made by the tro bject
- ti. C 2
- ClaACS,
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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 27. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0199?run=74