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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 44

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  1. another will De augmented by remorins the Prisin
  2. Ail Further From the Object. Cilasses: And these litele
  3. Ares must be distinctest and irhitest at their middle, and
  4. at their ends, wrtiere ther begin to grom contuled they
  5. must De coloured. And the Colours at one end ot
  6. erery Arc must be in a contrary order tothose at the
  7. other end, by reason that ther crols in the interme.
  8. diate rrhite; namely their ends, irhich verge torrards
  9. XE, WWill De red and vellOu on TMat SIde ACXE FHCC en-
  10. ter, and blue and riolet on the ottier side. But their
  11. other ends wrhich verse Prom YE will on the contrary
  12. De blue and riolet on that side torrards the C enter, and
  13. on the ottier Eide red and vellorr.
  14. Nor as all these things Follon From the Properties
  15. OF Light by a mathematical ay ot reasonins, (0 the
  16. truth ot them may be manifested by Fxperiments. For
  17. in a darke room; by vierine these Rings throush a
  18. Prism, by rellexion of the sereral prilmatique C Olours,
  19. ertrich an assistant causes to more to and Fro upon à
  20. Waii or Paper From Wrhence they are reftected, ivhils
  21. the Spectators Fve the Prilin and the Object-GElactes
  22. (a5 in the r3th Oblerration) are placed Reddr: the
  23. position ot the Cireles made successirely by the severat
  24. Colours, vill be found such, in respeet et one another,
  25. 25 I hare described in the Figures ab∞V OE aDZ V
  26. Ox a BEY. And Dy the same nethod the Fruth ot
  27. the Fixplications oF other Oplerrations may De exa-
  28. mined.
  29. By wtiat hath been Paid che like Phrenomina oF
  30. Nater, and thin plates of Cilass may be understood.
  31. But in (mall Fragments olttiole plates, there is this
  32. Further

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 44. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0216?run=74