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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 58

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  2. 58
  3. medium, insomuch that such a (maII particle will at di-
  4. verir oblique incidences reflect aII Ports oF C OlOUIS, In
  5. Cogreat a varietr that the Colour relultins from them
  6. aI, contulealy reflected trom a heap ot such particles,
  7. must rather be a wrhite or sres than anr other COlOuT,
  8. Or at best it must be but a verr impertect and dirty C0-
  9. IOur. Whereas it the thin body or Fmall particle be
  10. much denter than the ambient medium, the Colours
  11. accordins to the Tgth Oblerration are (o little changed
  12. by the variation oF obliquitr, that the rars irtrich arc
  13. refected least obliquelr may predominate over the rest
  14. (0 much a5 to cause a heap ot luch particles ta appear
  15. verr intensr of their COlOUr.
  16. It conduces alio fomethinq to the contirmation ot this
  17. Propohtion, that, accordins to the 22th Oblerration,
  18. the Colours exhibited bythe denser thin bodr within
  19. thecarer, are more brisque than thole exhribited by the
  20. rares wrichin che denter.
  21. PROP. VII.
  22. The bioness of the component parts of naturat Bodies
  23. may he conjectured by their Colours.
  24. FOr lince the parts of these Bodies by PrOD. 5. d0
  25. most probablr exhribit the lame Ciolours with a Plate ot
  26. equalthichnels, provided they have the lame recractire
  27. dentti; aud lince their parts leem For the most part 10
  28. have much the lame densuy with Water or Cta(S, 45
  29. by many circumstances is obrious to collect; to deter-
  30. mine the sres oFthole parts you necd onsy hare recourle
  31. to the precedent Lables, in Wrhich the thicknels otWa-
  32. ter or Cilals exhibitins ans Colour is expressed. Thus
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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 58. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0234?run=74