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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 34

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  1. By this means vou max Knor hou LHC COIOUrS FrOMI
  2. the center oF the. Rings outrard oughe to succecd in
  3. order as they ivere described in the Ath and L8th OB-
  4. servations. For il rou inore the Ruler gradually From
  5. AHI. Throuet all distances, having past over the Arst
  6. space irtrich denotes little or no retlexion to be made
  7. Dy thinnest substances, it rill Arst arrire at r the violet,
  8. and then very quickly at the blue and srcen, rhict
  9. together rith that riolet compound blue, and chen at
  10. the velloir and red, by irtose turther addition that
  11. blue is converted into wrhitenels, wrhich erhitenels con-
  12. tinues during the transit of the edge ot the Ruler From
  13. +0 2. and after that br the successrre deheience ot
  14. its Component Colours, turns tirst to compound rellon,
  15. and then to red, and last oF aII the red ceasetM at Lo
  16. Phen besin thie Colours ot the second Series, Wrhict
  17. Tucceed in order durins the transit ot the edee of the
  18. Ruler From 5 t00, and are more lively than betore,
  19. because more expanded and severed. ANd FOr the
  20. Pame reason, instead ot the Former wrhite chere inter-
  21. cedes betireen the blue and vellorr a mixture of orange,
  22. vellorr, oreen, blue and indico, all irhich together ought
  23. to extribit a dilute and imperfect sreen. 50 theC0-
  24. tours o thethird Series aI lucceed in order; Arst, the
  25. violet, wrhich a litele interteres with the red ot the se
  26. cond order, and is therebr inclined to a reddim purple;
  27. chen the blue and ercen, irhich are lels mixed rrith
  28. otter Colours, ard consequently inore livelr than be-
  29. tore, especially the green: Phen Follorrs the vellon,
  30. Tome of Wrhich tomards the oreen is distinct and good, but
  31. that part of it torards the succcedins red, a5 allo that
  32. red is mixed rith the violet and blue ot the tourth Se-
  33. TICS

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 34. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0206?run=74