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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 59

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  1. 59
  2. il it De desred to knoir the Diameter ot a corpulele,
  3. irhich beinq oF equat densiey with Glass Mall refleet
  4. oreen oF the third order; the number 16: Teirs it to
  5. Parts oF an Inch.
  6. The greates difficuley is here to lenoi oc ivtat order
  7. the Colour oF any Body is. And For this end ire must
  8. have recourse to the ath and 18th Obserrations, From
  9. irtence may be collected these particulars.
  10. Scarlets, and ottier reds, oranses and yellores it chey
  11. De pure and intense are most probably ot the lecond or-
  12. der. Those oF the Aust and third order allo mar bc
  13. preter sood, onls the vellor of the tirst order is taint,
  14. and the oranse and red of che thurd order have a great
  15. mixture et violet and blue.
  16. There maz be 800d greens oF the Foureh order, but
  17. the purest are ot the third. And of this order the sreen
  18. OF ail regitables seem to be, partly ey reason ot thein-
  19. tenseness oF their Colours, and partls becaule when
  20. they rither lome ot them turn to a greenistr vellon
  21. and others to a more pertect vellor or orange, Or Pei-
  22. hraps to red, passins tirst chroush aIl the atorelaid in-
  23. termediate Colours. Which chanses leem to be effected
  24. by the extralins of the moisture wrhich mas leave the
  25. cingins corpulcles more dense, and lomethins ausmen-
  26. cedby the accretion oF the oyiy and carthy part et
  27. chatmoilture. Nor theoreen wrichout doubeis ot the
  28. ame order rith those Colours into ihich it changettu,
  29. because the changes are gradtual, and thole COlOUrS,
  30. chouxh ulually not very Full, vet are otten t00 Tull and
  31. lively to be ot the tourth order.
  32. Blues

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 59. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0235?run=74