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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 57

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  1. COme Fran(DAPCHE) OE tO make mans ot tliem alociate
  2. into one cluster, Wrhereby tuo transparent liguors may
  3. compose a coloured onc. For re see hour ape thole
  4. Taline menstruums are to penetrate and dissotre sub.
  5. stances to wrhich ther are applied, and lome ot them
  6. to precipitate what ottiers dissolre. In like manner, it
  7. Wre consider the rarious Phaenomena of the Atmosphaere,
  8. re may obserre, that wrhen Vapors are tirstrailed, ther
  9. hinder not the transparener ot the Air, beins dirided
  10. into parts t0o mail to caule an reflexion in their super-
  11. ticies. But wrtren in order to compose drops ofrain they
  12. begin to conlesce and constitute slobules ot aIl inter-
  13. mediate Rres, thole globules irtien ther become ot a
  14. convenient sive to reflect fome Colours and transmit
  15. Others, mar constitute C louds ot various COlOurs aCcOr
  16. ding to their (2CS. And I sec not irtrat can be ratio-
  17. nullu conceired in (o transparent a substance as Water FOr
  18. the production of these Colours, Desides the various
  19. Eires oF its Auid and globuler Parcels.
  20. PR OP. VI.
  21. The parts of Bodies on rehich their Colours dépend
  22. are denser than the medium, rehich pervades their in
  23. terstices.
  24. This rill appear by considerine, that the Colour ot
  25. a Body depends not ontr on the rars wrhich are inci-
  26. dent perpendicularty on its parts, but on thole allo
  27. ertrich are incident at aIl other Angles. And that ac.
  28. cordinq tothe 7th Obserration, a very litule variation
  29. et obliguity will chanse the refected Colour irhere the
  30. thin body or Imall particle is rarer than the ambient
  31. medium,

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 57. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0233?run=74