Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 36
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- tine ot vellon and orange, and these thicknesses will
- DCGu Gv CE, C0, 67. And this beins KnoWn, it i5
- easy to determine irtrat thickness of Air is represented
- by C_ Or by any otter distance of the ruler trom
- A II.
- But Further, since by the roth Obserration the thick
- ness oF Air iras to the thicknels oF Water, which DC
- treen the Came CElasses exhribited the lame COlOur, 25
- 4t03, and by the 2ith Obserration the Colours ot
- thin bodies are not varied by varrins the ambient me-
- dium; the thickness ot a Bubble ot Water, extribiting
- any Colour, will be3 oF the thicknels oF Air producins
- thc Came Colour. And so according to the Tame Foch
- and 2rth Obserrations the thickness oF a plate or
- Olals, Wrhose refraction ot the mean retrangible ray, is
- meatured by the proportion of the Sines 31 to 20,
- may BC ~ oF the chickness oF Air producing the Came
- ColOurS; and the like oF other mediums. I do not
- attirm, that this proportion oF 20 +0 ZF, holds in aII
- the cayS; For the Sines ot other Ports et rays hare other
- Droportions. But the differences oF thole propOrtions
- are (0. litele that I do not here consider them. On
- chese Crounds I hare composed the tollowing Pable,
- irherein the thickness oF AIT, Water, and GEla(S, aE
- erhich each Colour is most intense and specitick, is ex
- pressed in parts ot an Inch dirided into Ten hundred
- chousand equat parts.
- L BC
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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 36. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0208?run=74