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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 42

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  2. erhiteness, rithout any terminations oF Madons, the
  3. retraction oF a Priim Mould make Rings oF ColourS ap-
  4. pear, Wrhereas it ulually makes Objects appear coloured
  5. omly there irhiere they are terminated ith Madors, Or
  6. hare parts unequally luminous; and that it Mould inake
  7. those Rines excccdingly distinet and irtite, althoustr
  8. it ulually renders Objects contuled and coloured. Thc
  9. cause ot these things rou ill understand by considerins,
  10. that aI the Rinos ot Colours are really in the plate,
  11. irhien riemed rich the natced kiye, althoushi by realon
  12. ot the great breadth ot their circumterences they 10
  13. much incertere and are blended together, that ther leem
  14. to constitute an even wrhiteness. But wrten the rays
  15. Pals through the Prism to the Rye, the orbits of the
  16. several Colours in crery Ring are retracted, Pome more
  17. than others, accordins to their degrees of retrangibility:
  18. By erhich means the Colours on one sde oF the Ring
  19. (that is on onc side of its Center) become more untolded
  20. and dilated, and those on the ottier hde more compli-
  21. cated and contracted. And irhere by a due refraction
  22. therare (o much contracted, that the serral Rings Be-
  23. come narrorer than to intertere rith one another, they
  24. must appear distinct, and also wrhite, il the constituent
  25. Coloursbe so much contracted asto be Wwholly coincident.
  26. But, on the other side, irhere the orbit ot every Rine
  27. is made broader by the Further untoldinq oF its CO
  28. lours, it must intertere more with ottier Rings than
  29. betore, and (o become less dictinct.
  30. T0 explain this a litele Further, suppose the concen-
  31. triek Cireles AV, and BZ, reprelent thie red and riolet
  32. oE ans order, irhich, cogecher irith the intermediate
  33. COIOUTS,
  34. Eis. 7.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 42. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0214?run=74