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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 45

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  1. C.45
  2. surther obserrable, that where they lye Aat uxon a
  3. Pableandare turned about their Centers Whilstthey are
  4. viewed through a Prism, ther will in fome poltures
  5. extribit rares oF rarious Colours, and Pome ot them ex-
  6. hibitthele ares in onc or trro positions only, but the
  7. inost oF them do in all positions extribit ehem, and inake
  8. ehem For the molt part appear almost all over the plates.
  9. Phe reason is, thât the Tuperticies oF luch plates are nOL
  10. even, but have many carities and Cvellings, erhich hon
  11. hallon soerer do a little rary the thickness of the
  12. Plate. For at the sereral sides of thole carities, For
  13. the reasons nemly described, there oughe to be produ-
  14. ced irares in sereral poltures ofthe Prilm. Now thoustr
  15. it De Dut Fome verr Tinall, and HAETOIeE PaTtS OF thC
  16. Cla(S, by erhich chese mares For the most pALL arC CaU-
  17. led, vet ther may seem to extend themsetres over the
  18. Wrhole Citals, Decause From the narrowest ot thole parts
  19. there are COlOurS OF severat Orders that is oF several
  20. Rings, contusedly reslected, which by retraction of the
  21. Prilm are untolded, separated, and accordins to their
  22. degrees ot retraction, dispersed to sereral places, (0 25 10
  23. constitute (o mans sereral erares, a5 there vere divers
  24. orders ot. Colours promiscuousty reflected From that
  25. Part oF the GElaIS.
  26. These are the principal Phaenomena ot thin Plates
  27. or Bubbles, irhole explications depend on the pro-
  28. perties oF Light, Wrhich Phare heretotore delivered.
  29. And these rou sec do necessarilr Follon tromthem, and
  30. aoree with them, eren totheir very least circumstances;
  31. and not only (0, but do very much tend to their proot.
  32. EhuS, by che 24th Obserration, it appears, that tIC
  33. FayS

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 45. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0217?run=74