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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 52

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  1. . 61
  2. (52
  3. reason Why unitorm pellueid mediums, (Tuch a5 Nater,
  4. Gta(S, OE C xYAtaL) have no sensible cellexion but in
  5. their external superficies, where ther are adjacent to
  6. otter mediums of a ditterent density, is because ali
  7. their contisuous parts have one and the lame degree
  8. oF dentier.
  9. P R O P. TI.
  10. The least parts of almost al naturat Bodies are in some
  11. measure transparent: And the opacity of those Bodies
  12. ariseth from the multitude of reflexions caused in their in-
  13. ternat Parts.
  14. Thae this is C0 has been obterved by others, and
  15. Wvilleaulr be sranted by them that have been convei-
  16. Tant ith Miscroscopes. And it may be also tryed by
  17. applyins any substance to a HIole throush irhich lome
  18. Lishit is immitted into a dark room. For ho opake
  19. foerer that substance may leem in the open Air, it viiI
  20. by that means appear very manitestls transparent, it
  21. it be oF a sufficient chinnels. Onlr irhite metalline B0-
  22. dies must be excepted, irhich by realon ot their excel
  23. sre densiey seem to reflect almost ai the Light incis
  24. dent on their Arst Cuperticies, untess by Colution in
  25. menstruums ther De reduced into very (mall particles,
  26. and then they become transparent.
  27. E R OP. IIE
  28. Betreeen the parts of opate and coloured Bodies are
  29. manu spaces, eitber emptus or replenisted roith mediums
  30. of other densities; as Water betreeen the tingins corpuscles
  31. roberevith any Liquor is impresnated, Air betreeen the
  32. aqueous

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 52. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0228?run=74