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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 32

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  1. 2
  2. Eu F, G, HI, let perpendiculars Aa, BB, 1c. De crected,
  3. by wrhole intervals the extent ot the several Colours
  4. Pet underneath against them, is to be represented. Phen
  5. diride the line aa in such proportion as the numbers
  6. 1g 27 3,5, 6, 7, 9, 10, TT, Dc. Tet at the points ot divi-
  7. sion denote. And through thole diritions From L
  8. dear lines rI, 2I, 3Lg 5M, 6H, 7O, Oc.
  9. Bo iF A2 bC luppoled to reprelent the thickness
  10. oF ans thin transparent Body, at irhrich the outmost
  11. violet is most copiousr reflected in the Airst Rins, oi
  12. Series oF Colours, then by the 13th Observation LlR,
  13. will represent ies thicknels, ac irtrich the utmost red
  14. is most copiousy refected in the lame Series. AIIO
  15. by the sthi and ibth Obserrations, A6 and HIN iii
  16. denote the chicknecles at wrhich those extreme COlOuIS
  17. are most copiousy rehected in the second Scries, and
  18. A 2O and ITO the thichneses, at wrtich ther arc
  19. most copioussy resected in the third Series, and lo on.
  20. And the thicknels at wrhich aur ot the intermediate
  21. Colours are reflected most copiousr, will, according to
  22. the 1gth Obserration, De detined by the distance oF the
  23. linc AHI From the intermediate parts oF the lines 2K,
  24. 6TT, 100, 1c. against irhich the names ot thole C0.
  25. IOUES are Written belou.
  26. But Further, to detine the latitude ofthese Colours in
  27. each Rins Or Series, let A 1 design the leas chicknels,
  28. and A 3 the greatest thicknels, at erhich the extreme
  29. violet in the tirst Scries is resected, and Iet FTI. and
  30. HIL delion the like limits For the extreme red, and
  31. lec the intermediate Colours be limited by the inter-
  32. medliate pares oF the lines II, and 3C against irtrich
  33. the names of those COlours are rritten, and (0 on: BuI
  34. vet

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 32. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0204?run=74