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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 39

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  1. D
  2. nels extribitins blue oF the second Order, and the sum
  3. Will be 132, irhich is the thickness extibitins the
  4. purple of the third Order.
  5. To explain, in the next place, the Circumstances ot
  6. the 2d and zd Obserrations; that is, ho theRings ot
  7. the ColOurs may (by turming the Prisins about cheir
  8. COmOn AXis the contrae mar to that expresed in
  9. those Obterrations) De conrerted into wrhite and black
  10. Rines, and aftermards into Rings oF Colours again, the
  11. Colours oF each Ring lying non in an inverted order; it
  12. must be remembred, that those Rinos oF Colours are di-
  13. lated by the obliguation ot the cars to the Air whict
  14. intercedes the Gilases, and that accordins to the Table
  15. inthe ith Obserration, their dilatation or increase ot
  16. their Diameter is most manifest and specdr wten they
  17. are obliquest. No the rars oF velloir DeInG MOTE rC
  18. Fracted by the first superticies oF the said Air than thole
  19. oFred, are therebr made more oblique to the second su-
  20. perticies, at irhrichi they are reflected to produce the co-
  21. loured Rings, and consequenelr ehe relloir Circle in cach
  22. Rinsrill Be more dilated than the red; and the excess oF
  23. its dilatation will be somuch the greater, by hou much
  24. thegreater is the obliguier of the rars, until at last it De-
  25. comeotequal extent mith the red ot the same Ring. And
  26. For the lame reason the oreen, blue and violet, will be also
  27. (o much dilated by the Aill greater obliquier ot their
  28. rayS, 45 to become aII verr nearly oF equal extent rittr
  29. the red that is, equallr distant From ehe center of the
  30. RingS. And then dIl the Colours of the lame Rino
  31. must De coincident, and br their mixture extribit à
  32. irtice Ring. And these wrhite Rings must hare black
  33. arid dark Rines vetireeh etiem, because they do not
  34. Epreact

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 39. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0211?run=74