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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 55

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  1. PROL. V.
  2. The transparent parts of Bodies accordine 10 their se
  3. verat sixes must reflect rays of one Colour, and transmit
  4. those of another, on the same erounds that thin Plates or
  5. Bubbles do reftect or transmit those rays. And ihis I tatee
  6. to be the ground of au their Colours.
  7. For it a thin d or plated Body, irhich beins OF an
  8. eren ChiCkneIS, apPeAES AII OVET OF OnC UNIFOEIL CO-
  9. lour. Bould be Hlit into chreds, or broken into tras.
  10. inents, oF the Pame thickness with the plate; I sec no
  11. realon wrhiy ererr thred or fragment Mould not kecp its
  12. Colour, and by consequence wtr a heap ofthose chirede
  13. Or Fragments Thould not constitute a mals or ponrder ot
  14. the same Colour, wrhich the plate exhibited betore it
  15. asbroken. And the parts ot aIl natural Bodies beine
  16. like (O many FFaSMENIS OF a Plate, must on the lame
  17. srounds exhribit the same COlOurS.
  18. Nor that ther dos0, will appear by the aftinity oF
  19. their properties. The tinely coloured teathers ot lome
  20. Birds, and particularly thole ot Peacocks Pailo, do in
  21. the very same part of the Feather appear oF several CO-
  22. lours in sereral positions of the Fye, alter the very lame
  23. manner that thin Plates rvere found to do in the 7th
  24. and 1gch Obserrations, and theretore arise From the
  25. thinnels oF che LTAN(PATeNE PaRES OF The Feathers; that
  26. is, Fromthe Pendernels oF the verr tine Hairs, or C’apilla-
  27. menta, Which gror out ot the sides of the grosser late.
  28. eal DTaNCHCS OF ABTES OF thole FeatherS. And tothe
  29. Came purpole it is, that the Webs oF lome Spiders by
  30. beins

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 55. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0231?run=74