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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 53

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  2. aqueous globules that constiture Clouas or Mists; and for
  3. the most part spaces void of both eir and W ater, but yet
  4. perhaps not reholly void of au substance, betreeen the parts
  5. of hard Bodies.
  6. The truth oF this is erinced by the tuo precedent
  7. Propostions: For by the second Propohtion there are
  8. many reslexions made br the internal parts oF Bodies,
  9. irtich, by the tirst Propolition, vould not happen it
  10. che parts of thole Bodies vere continued without any
  11. luch interstices betreen them, because reslexions arei
  12. caused onty in superticies, irhich intercede mediums ot.
  13. a differins density By PFOP. I.
  14. But Further, that this discontinuitr ot parts is the
  15. principal cause ofthe opacitr ot Bodies, riil appear by
  16. considerins, that opake substances become transparent.
  17. br Aillins their pores rith anx substance oF equal or al-
  18. most equal densitr rith their parts. Thus Paper dip-
  19. Ded in Water or Oyl, the Oculus mundi Stone Aecp d in
  20. Water, Linnen- cloth oyled or varnithed, and mans other
  21. substances Coaked in such Liguors as rill intimatelr
  22. perrade their litele pores, become by that means more
  23. transparent than othervile; (0, on the contrary, the
  24. most transparent substances may by eracuatine their
  25. Pores, or separatins their parts, be rendred lusticiently
  26. Opake, a5 SalES Or WWet Paper, or the Oculus mundi Stone
  27. by beins dried, Hlorn by beins scraped, Glals by beins
  28. reduced to porrder, or otherrile Haved, lurpen-
  29. tine by being sirred about rith Water till ther mix
  30. impertectis, and Water by beins formed into many
  31. Tmal Bubbles, cither alone in the Form ot FrotH, Or
  32. by Makins it together with Oyl ot Turpentine, or
  33. rich some other convenient Liquor, irich wrhich it will
  34. BDE

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 53. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0229?run=74