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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 47

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  1. C4
  2. sth Obserrations compared with the fourtti and
  3. ciotth.
  4. By the precedent Obserrations it appears also, thaF
  5. Whiteness is a dissimilar mixture oF aIl Colours, and that
  6. Light is a mixture oF rars indued rith all thole CO-
  7. tOurS. For considerins the multitude oF the, RingS OF
  8. ColOurS, in thc 2d, 12th and 24th Oblerrations, it is
  9. manifest that althouoh in the ath and L8th ObCCeVA-
  10. tions there appear no more than eiont or nine ot thole
  11. RingS, Vet there are really a Far greater number, wrhich
  12. lo muctr intertere aud mingle ith one anothiei, a5 alter
  13. those eiont or nine revolutions to dilute one another
  14. Wholly, and constitute an even and sensibly unitorm
  15. Wrtitenels. And consequentr that irhitenels nust DC
  16. alloved a mixture ot all Colours, and the Lishe whieh
  17. Conrers it to the fiye must bea mixture oF rars indued
  18. Writh aIl ThOTe COIOUES.
  19. But Further, by the 24th Oblerration, IE apPCaIS,
  20. that there is a constant relation between Cotours and
  21. Retransibilier, the most retransible rars beins violet,
  22. the least retransible red, and thole ot intermediate C0.
  23. lourstravins proportionably intermediate degrees ot re-
  24. Frangibilier. And by the 13th, 2gth and 1gth Ob(er-
  25. vations, compared with the Athos IBth, There apPCaIS
  26. to be the lame constant relation betrreen Colour and
  27. Reslexibility, the riolet beino in like circumstances re-
  28. Aected at least thicknesses ot any thin Plate or Bubble,
  29. the red at sreatest thicknesses, and the intermediate
  30. Colours at intermediate thickneRes. Whence it FOl-
  31. lons, that the coloritique dispositions ot rars are al(0
  32. connate riththem and immutable, and by consequence
  33. that

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 47. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0219?run=74