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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 38

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  1. Non it this Pable be compared ith the bth Scheme,
  2. vou rill there sec the constitution oF cach Coloui, a5
  3. to its Ingredients, or the original Colours of which it
  4. is compounded, ind chence be enabled to judge of its
  5. intenteness or imperfection; irhich may suftice in ex-
  6. plication ot the ath and rBth Obserrations, unless it
  7. De Further dehred to delineate the manner hou the CO.
  8. Jours appear, when the trro Object-Citasles are layd
  9. uxon one another. Y0 do Which, let there be de
  10. icribed a laroe AEC OF a Circle, and a Areighe Linc
  11. ertrich inar touch that ArC, and parallet to that Tan-
  12. sent severat occult Lines, at such distances From it, 25
  13. the numbers set againstthe several Colours in the Table
  14. denote. For the ArC, and its Tangent, will reprelent
  15. the superticies ofthe Gilasses terminatins the interjacent
  16. Air; aud the places irhere the occult Lines cut the
  17. AEC Wvill BOW at what distances From the Center, Or
  18. Point et contact, cach Colour is resected.
  19. Phere arc allo other ules of this Pable: For by itS
  20. altistance the thickness of the Bubble in the Tgth Ob.
  21. serration as determined by the Colours irhich it ex-
  22. Thribited. And (O the bignelS OF thC PATES OF natUTAL
  23. Bodies may be conjectured by their Colours, as MaII DC
  24. hereatter ern. AIIo, if tiro or more very thin plates
  25. De lavd onc upon another, lo asto compole one plate
  26. equallins them all in thicknels, the relultins Colour
  27. may be herebr determined. For instance, MI. Hooke in
  28. his Miscroeraphia obserres, that a Faint yellon plate ot
  29. Muscory- sla(s lav dupon a blue one, constituted a very
  30. deep purple. Therelloi ofthe ArH Order is a faint
  31. one, and the thiekness of the plate exhribitins ic, ac
  32. cordins to the Table is 43, to which add 9, the thick-
  33. nels

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 38. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0210?run=74