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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 48

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  1. C487
  2. Ehat al the productions and appearances oF ColourS
  3. in the World are derired not trom any phylical chanse
  4. caused in Light by retraction or rellexion, but oniy
  5. trom the rarious IXtureS Or leparations oF. PaYS, by
  6. virtue ot their different Retransibilier or Rehexibiliey.
  7. And in this respect the Science ot Colours becomes à
  8. Speculation as truly mathematical as any other part ot
  9. Optiques. I mean (0 Tar a5 ther depend on the nature
  10. OE Lishe, and are not produced or altered by che pover
  11. oCimagination, or by Ariteins or presins ThCLy es.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 48. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0220?run=74