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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 46

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  2. rars oF sereral Colours made a5 well by thin Plates or
  3. Bubbles, 25 by. retractions ofa Prilm, have sereral de-
  4. rces ot retransibilier, rherebr those ot cach order,
  5. irhrich at their reflexion trom the Plate or Bubble arc
  6. intermixed rith thole ot other orders, are separated
  7. From them by retraction, and allociated together 1o a5 to
  8. become visible by themselres like ArCS Ot CirclCS. FOT
  9. il the rays vere aIl alike retransible, tis impossible that
  10. the erhritenels, wrhich tothe naked sence appears uni-
  11. Form, Thould by retraction hare its parts transposed and
  12. ransed into thole black and wrhite AFCS.
  13. IE appears allo that the unequal retractions ot dit.
  14. form rays proceed not trom any continsent irregulari
  15. ties; luch a5 are reins, an uneren polistu, or Fortuitous
  16. polition ot the pores ot Cilals; unequul and calual mo.
  17. tions in the Air or Ather; the spreadins, breakins, or
  18. dividins the lame ras into mans diversins parts, Oi
  19. thelike. For, admittins any Tuch irregularities, it rould
  20. De impossible for retractions to render thole Rings (0
  21. verr distinet, and vell detined, a5 ther do in the
  22. 24th Obserration. It is necellary theretore that eve.
  23. ry ray have its proper and constant desree ot retran.
  24. sibilir connate rith ic, accordins to wrhich its retraction
  25. 15 erer justly and regulariy pertormed, and that sere-
  26. ralrays hare sereral ot thole degrees.
  27. And irhat is Caid oF their retransibiliey may be ala
  28. understood ot their reflexibilitr, thac is ot their dispo.
  29. litions to De relected lome at a sreater, and others at a
  30. less thickness, of thin. Plates oi Bubbles, namely, that
  31. those dispositions are also connate with the rays, and
  32. inmucable; 2s may appear by che 23th, 14ch, and
  33. a5CH

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 46. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0218?run=74