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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 33

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  1. L33
  2. et rith this caution, that the reflections be suppoled
  3. Hronsest at the intermediate Spaces, 2H, 6H, 10, dc.
  4. nd trom thence ro decrease graduallr torards thele li-
  5. mits, IL, 3L, 5M, 7O, Bc. on cither side; Wrhere
  6. vou must not conceire them to be precisels limited,
  7. but to decar indetinitelr. And Whereas lhare assigned
  8. the same latitude to every Series, I did it, because 2)-
  9. thouoh the Colours in the Arst Series lcem to be a little
  10. broader than the rest, by reason ot a Aronser rellexion
  11. chere, vet that incqualier is (o insentible a5 scarcely t0
  12. Dc determined by Oblervation.
  13. Noi accordins to this description, conceirine that
  14. cherars originally oF several Colours are by turus re-
  15. Aected at the Spaces TIL 3, GM O7, gPR FF, 1C.
  16. andtransmitted at the Spaces AHII, 3L. M 5, 7OP9,
  17. Oc. it is ea (y to know wrhrat Colour must in the open Air
  18. De exhibited at any thickness oF a transparent thin body.
  19. For it a Ruler DC applied parallel to AHI, at that di-
  20. Rance From it by which thic thicknels of the body is
  21. represented, the alternate SpaCeS F IL. Z, G MIO7, VC.
  22. irhich it croseth ill denote the reflected orisinal CO-
  23. lours, oF Wrhich the Colour exhibited in the open Air
  24. is componnded. Thus it the constitution of the green
  25. in the third Series oF Colours be delired, apply the
  26. Ruter as rou sceat n ere, and by its passine through
  27. Tome ot the blue at x and rellor ato, a5 well as through
  28. the green at e, vou may conclude that the ereen extri-
  29. bited at that thicknels oF the body is principally con-
  30. cituced oC original srCen, BUE HOE WithOUE a MiXTIe
  31. oE some bluc and yellor.
  32. e

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 33. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0205?run=74