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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 35

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  1. ries, Wrhereby rarious degrées of red very mueh incli-
  2. nins to purple are compounded. This riolet and blue,
  3. Which Mould succced this red, beins mixed with, and
  4. hidden in it, there lucceeds a sreen. And this at first
  5. is much inclined to blue. but soon becomes à 500
  6. sieen, the only unmixed and livels Colour in this
  7. Tourth Series. For as it verges tomards the rellon, it
  8. Desinsto intertere rith the Colours ot the Alth Series,
  9. by vhose mixture the succcedins vellou and red are
  10. vers much diluted and made dirtr, especialy the vel-
  11. Tor, irhich beins thereaker Colour is scarce able to
  12. ther it selE. ACter this the several Series intertere more
  13. and more, and their Colours become more and more
  14. intermixed, till alter three or tour more rerolutions
  15. in erhich the red and blue predominate by turrs)
  16. alI Corts ot Colours are in all places prerty equally ben-
  17. ded, and compound an eren rsutenels.
  18. And since by the rsth Obserration the rays indied
  19. rith onc Colour are transmitted, irhere thole of ano-
  20. ther Colour arc reflected, the reason of the Colours
  21. made by thetransmicted Lishc in che ochand zoch OB.
  22. lerrations is trom hence erident.
  23. IE not only the order and species ot thele ColOuIs;
  24. but alsothe precise thicknels ot the plate, or thin body
  25. at irhich they are exhibited, be detired in parts of an
  26. luch, that may be also obtained by alsistance of the bch
  27. or 1bth Oblerrations. For accordins to thole Oblerva-
  28. tions the thickness of the thinned Air, wtich betwween
  29. trro Clasles exhibited the most luminous parts ot the
  30. trs (IX RInGS WVETC iocun 17oeB iybéce ipo 1 i PaFIS OF
  31. an luch. Suppole the Lient resected molt copioully
  32. ac chese chichresses be chebrishr citrine yellour, or con-
  33. tinc

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 35. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0207?run=74