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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 43

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  1. l43)
  2. Colours, constitute any one of these Rings. Noir these
  3. beins viemed throush a Prism, the riolet Circle BR,
  4. Wwill by a greater retraction be turther transtated trom
  5. ies place than the red AV, and (0 approach nearer t0
  6. it on that side, torrards wrhich the retractions are made.
  7. lior instance, il the red be eranstated to av, the violet
  8. mas betranllated to bx, (0 asto approuch nearer to it
  9. al x than betore, and it the red be Further transtated
  10. to ar, the riolet may be (0 much Curther tranllated to
  11. bX a5 to convene rith it at X, and if the red be vet
  12. Further translated to ar, the violet mar be Aill (o much
  13. Further tranlated to BE 25 to pals berond it at E, and
  14. Convene mith it at e and f. And chis beins undertood
  15. noc only of the red and violet, but oF all che other in-
  16. termediate Colours, and allo ot every rerolution of
  17. thole Colours, vou will casilr perceire hor thole of the
  18. lame rerolution or order, by their nearnels at xv and
  19. En and their coincidence aF XV, e and f, ousht to con-
  20. Ritute preuy distinet Ares oF Circles, especials at XV,
  21. Or ac e and f, and chat ther rill appear severally at
  22. X 2, and at X r exhibit wrhiteness by their coincidence,
  23. and again appear several at 25, but yet in a contrary
  24. order to that irhich cher had betore, and Aill retain
  25. beronde and f. But, on the ocher side, at ab, a b,
  26. Or a B, these Colours must become much more contu-
  27. sed by beins dilated and spread (0, a5 co intertere mith
  28. thole oF other Orders. And the lame contusion will
  29. hrappen at rE betreene andf, il the retraction be very
  30. Sreat, or the Prim very dictant Fromthe Object. Crlalles:
  31. In irhich ease no Parts oF the Rines ill be scen, Pave
  32. onlys ero licele Aresiat e and f, whole distance trom onei
  33. 78 2
  34. another,

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 43. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0215?run=74