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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 40

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  3. spread and intertere rith one another as betore. And
  4. For that realon alfother muct become diltincter and vi-
  5. sible to tar greater Numbers. But vet the riolet DeiMB
  6. obliquest wrill be Comethins more dilated in provortion
  7. to its extent thenthe other Colours, and lo very apt to
  8. appear at the exterior verses ot cheirtute.
  9. Alterwards, by a greater obliquity ot the rars, the
  10. violet and blue become more sensibly dilated than the
  11. red and rellorr, and (o beins turther remored from the
  12. center oF the Rings, the Colours imust emerse out ot the
  13. wrhrite in an order contrari to that irhrich cher had be-
  14. Fore, the riolet and blue at the exterior limbs ot cach
  15. Rins, and thered and yellor at the interior. Andtherio-
  16. let, by realon of the sreatest obliquits ot its rays, beins
  17. in proportion most ot all expanded, ill soonest appear
  18. at the exterior limb of cach irtrite Ring, and become
  19. more conspicuous than the rest. And the sereral Series
  20. oE Colours belonsins to the sereral Rings, willu by
  21. their untoldins and spreadins, besin asain to intertere,
  22. and thereby render the Rings lels dictinet, and not visi-
  23. ble to lo great numDerS.
  24. IE instend oF the Prisins the Object-glases be made
  25. ule ot, the Rings irhich they extribit become not wrhite
  26. and distinet by the obliquits oF the Fse, by reason that
  27. che rays in their pallase throush chat Air irhrich inter-
  28. cedes the Crlases are very nearly parallel to thole Lines
  29. in Which ther rere tirkincident on theCilabes, and con-
  30. sequently the rars indued ith leveral COloursare not
  31. nelined one more chan another to chat AIr, 25 it hap.
  32. pens in the Prilms.
  33. Lhereisyet another circumstance otthese Lxperiments
  34. to be considered, and chac is irhiy the black aud erhite
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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 40. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0212?run=74