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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 29

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The machine reads it as

  1. l29.
  2. excceded not the third part ot a Circle. IF the RC
  3. traction ras very great, or the Prilm very. distant trom
  4. theObject-Classes, the midale part ot thole Ares BC-
  5. came allo contused, (0 as to dilappear and constitute an
  6. even Whitenels, Whils on cither side their ends, a5 al(o
  7. the wrhole Ares Furthest From the center, became di-
  8. cineter than before, appecrins in thetorm as. rou sce
  9. ehem designed in the Atch Figure.
  10. The ATCS, Wrhere ther secmed distinctest, vere only
  11. erhite and black successivelr, without any other CO-
  12. lours intermixed. But in other places there appeared
  13. COlours, Whose order mas inverted by the retraction
  14. in suchr manner, that it I Ars held the Prilm very near
  15. the Object Cilasses, and then gradtuallr remored it
  16. Turther otf torrards my Liye, the Colours of the 2d,
  17. 3d, Ath, and follorring Rings Chrunk torrards the irhite
  18. that emeroed berreen them, until ther wholly va-
  19. nimed into it at the midale ot the AICS, and after-
  20. ards emersed again in a contrarr order. But at
  21. the ends ot the Ares ther retained their order un-
  22. changed.
  23. I have Pometimes (0 lar d one Objcet. CTa(s upon
  24. the other, that to the naked fire ther have all over
  25. Feemed unitormly wrhite, without the least appearance
  26. oF ans oF the coloured Rings; and vet by vierine
  27. them through a Prisim, sreat multitudes ofthose Rings
  28. hare dilcorered themselres. And in likce manner plates
  29. oF Mulcorr-clas, and Bubbles ot Cilass blovn at a
  30. Lamp. Furnace, irhich ivere not (othin as to exhibit
  31. any Colours tothe naked Fiye, have throuoh the Prism
  32. extribited a great variety ot them ranged irregui
  33. laris ux and donn in the form oE iraves. And 10
  34. Bubbles
  35. 18. 5

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 29. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0201?run=74