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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 28

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  1. 28)
  2. Glases; or by comparinq tuo Bubbles oF Water blonn
  3. et distant times, in the Arst oF wrhrich che whitenels
  4. appeared, wtich succeeded aHI the Colours, and in
  5. ehe other, the rrhiteness irhich preceded them alL
  6. OBS. ZZIV.
  7. Wrtien the erro Object-Glasses rere lay d upon one
  8. another, (0 a5 to make the Rinos OF the COIOUES aP-
  9. Dear, though rith iny nakced Lyc I could not discern
  10. abore 8 Or 9 ot thole Rings, vet by riemins them
  11. throuoh a Prism I have seen a tar greater multitude,
  12. infomuch that L could number more than forer Besides
  13. many others, that ere (0 very (mall and clole toge-
  14. ther, that I could not kecp my Lye Ceddy on them
  15. Tererally (0 a5 to number them, but by their extent Thare
  16. Fometimes eltimated tnem to De more than a hundied.
  17. And Ibeliere the Lxperiment mar be improved tothe
  18. discovery ot tar greater numbers. For they seem to
  19. De really unlimited, thoush rilible onty (0 tar a5 they
  20. can be separated by the refraction, as l Mall herealter
  21. explaim.
  22. But it ras but one sde et these Rinos, nametv, that
  23. torards wrhich the retraction ras made, wrhich by that
  24. retraction ras rendered distinet, and the other (ide be-
  25. came more contuled than whren vierred by the naked
  26. Fre, insomuch that there I could noc discern abore
  27. one or tiro, and lometimes none ot thole Rings, ot
  28. prtrich I could discern eight or nine rith my naked
  29. Ere. And their Segments or AICS, Wrhich on the
  30. other side appeared (o numerOUS, For the mott Part
  31. excecded

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 28. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0200?run=74