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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 41

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  2. Rinos irhich wrhen viered at a distance appear distinet,
  3. hould noc only become contuled by riemins them near
  4. ac hrand, but also vield a violet Colour at boch che
  5. edges ot erery irhite Rins. And the realon is, thae che
  6. cays irhich enter the Lye at sereral parts of thePupil,
  7. trare several obliguities to the CilaBes, and thole wrhrich
  8. are most oblique, it considered apart, rould represent
  9. ehe Rinss bisger than thole irhichare the least oblique.
  10. Nhence chebreadth. of the perimeter ot erery wrhite
  11. Rins is expanded outrards by the obliquest FaYS,
  12. and inmards by the least oblique. And this expantion
  13. 15 (0 much the greater by ho much the greater is thc
  14. difference of the obliquier; that is, by hon much the
  15. Puxil is rider, or the Fre nearer tothe Cilases. And
  16. the breadth ot che violet must be molt expanded, De-
  17. cause the rars apt to exeite à senlation ot that Coloui
  18. are most oblique to a second, or turther superticies ot
  19. che chin d Air at erhich ther are reftected, and have
  20. also che greatest variation ot obliquier, erhich makes
  21. thac Colour Coonest emerse out oF the edges ot the
  22. irhite. And a5 thebreadth ot every Rins is thus aus-
  23. mented, the dark interrals must be diministred, until
  24. the. neistibourins Rinss become continuous, and arc
  25. blendedu the exterior tirst, and then thole nearer the
  26. Center, (0 that ther can no longer be dictinsuistid
  27. apare, buc seem to constitute an even and unitorm
  28. Wrhicenels.
  29. Amons all the Obserrations there is none accompa-
  30. nied rith (0 odd circumstances a5 the 24th. OFthole
  31. the principal are, that in thin plates, irhich to the
  32. nated Eye seem ot an even and unitorm transparent
  33. Wrhite-

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 41. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0213?run=74