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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 56

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  1. o
  2. beins ipun very fine hare appeared coloured as lome
  3. hare obserred, and that the coloured Abres of some (IIks
  4. by rarrins the polition of the Fve do vary their C0
  5. IOur. AIIO the Colours oF AIHS, Cloths, and other sub.
  6. stances, irtrich Water or Oyl can intimately penetrate,
  7. become more faint and oblcure by beins immersed in
  8. thole liquors, and recorer their visor again by beins
  9. dried, much alter the manner declared of thin Bodies
  10. in the Toth and 2rth Obserrations. LCaF- sold Fome
  11. Forts ot painted Clals, the infusion ot Fionum Nephri-
  12. ticum, and some other substances refeet one COlOur,
  13. and transmit another, libe thin Bodies in theoth and
  14. 2oth Obserrations. And Pome ot thole coloured pour-
  15. ders Which Painters ule, mar hrave their Colours a litcle
  16. chansed, by beins very elaborately and tinelr ground.
  17. Where I sec not what can be justly pretended tor thole
  18. chanses, besides the breakins of their parts into less
  19. parts by that contrition atter the lame manner chatthe
  20. COlour ot a thin Plate is chansed by varrins its thick.
  21. nels. For rrhichrealon al(o it is that thecoloured Rowers
  22. oF Plants and Vesitables by being bruised ulually be-
  23. come more transparent than betore, or at least in lome
  24. degree or other chanse their COlOurS. NVOr IS it much
  25. lels to my purpole, thatby mixins dirers liguors very
  26. Odd and remarquable productions and changes of C0-
  27. lours may be effected, ot irhich no cause can bemore
  28. obrious and rational than that the Caline corpuscles ot
  29. one liquor do rariousy aet upon or unite rith the
  30. tingins corpuscles ot anocher, (0 a5 to make them svell,
  31. Or Chrink (wrhereby not ouly their bulk but their den-
  32. licy also may be changed) or to divide them into
  33. Emaller corpuseles, (Whereby a coloured liquor may be-
  34. COmmO

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 56. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0232?run=74