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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 60

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  1. (607
  2. Blues and purples may be cither oF the second or third
  3. order, but the best are of the third. Thus the COlOUF
  4. oF riolets seems to be ot that order, because their Syrup
  5. by acid Liquors turns red, and by urinous and alcali-
  6. alC TUTNS greeM. For since it iS oF the nature oF ACIdS
  7. to dissolve or attenuate, aud oF AIcalies to precipitate
  8. or incrastate, if the purple Colour ot the Syrup iraS ot
  9. the second order, an acid Liquor by actenuatinq its tino-
  10. ins corpulcles vould chanse it to a red ot the Arst
  11. order, and an AIcaly by incrassating them vould change
  12. it to a preen ot the second order; Which red and oreen,
  13. especially the oreen, seemtoo impertect to be the CO-
  14. Jours produced by these changes. But il the laid purple
  15. be supposed ot the third order, its change to red ot the
  16. second, and sreen oE the third, may writhout any in-
  17. convenience De alloved.
  18. IF there De tound any Body ot a deeper and lels red-
  19. dist purple than that ot the violets, its C olour most
  20. probably is oF the second order. But vet their beino
  21. no Body commonly known Wrhose Colour is constanttis
  22. more decp thantheirs I hare made use oftheir name to
  23. denote the deepest and least reddisti purples, luch a5
  24. manifestly transcend cheir Colour in puritr.
  25. The blue ot the first order, thouch verr faint and
  26. little, may possiblr be the Colour oF. Tome substances;
  27. and particulariy the arure COlour oF the Skys seems to
  28. be oF this order. For alt rapours wrhen they beginto
  29. condense and coalesce into linall parcels, become tirst ot
  30. that bisnels wrhereby luch an Arure must be retlected
  31. betore they can constitute C louds ot other Colours. And
  32. (0 this being the hest Colour wrhich vapors begin to
  33. refleet, it ought to bethe Cvlour oE thetinest and most
  34. traML

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 60. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0236?run=74