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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 61

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  1. 61
  2. transparent Steys in Wrhich vapors are not arrivedto that
  3. erolnels requisite to retteet other Colours, as we find it
  4. 15 bY experience.
  5. WBiteness, it most intense and luminous, is that ofthe
  6. trst order, it less Arons and luminous a mixture of the
  7. Colours ot several orders. OF this last kind is the
  8. ertriteness oF Froth, Paper, Linnen, and most wrhite sub-
  9. Aances: OF the Former I reckon that ot wrhite metals to
  10. bC. For Whilsthe densest oF metals, Gold, it foliated
  11. i5 transparent, and ai metals become transparent it
  12. dissolred in menstruums or vitrihied, the opacity ot
  13. Wrhite metals arileth not from their densiey alone. Phey p. S2
  14. being less dense than Gold rould De more transparent
  15. Than it, did not lome other cause concur with their den-
  16. Cier to makce them opatie. And this cause I take tobe
  17. Tuch a bionels ot their particles as fes them to reflect
  18. the wrhite oF the Ars order. For it they beot other
  19. thicknesses ther may refect other COlOurs, a5 IS IaNI-
  20. Fest by the Colours rhich appear upon hot Steel in tem-
  21. pering it, and Cometimes upon the Curtace oF melted
  22. metals in the Skin or Scoria wrhich arises uxon them in
  23. their coolino. And a5 the white ot the tirst order is
  24. the Arongest which can De made by Plates oftransparent
  25. substances, so it ouoht to be Aronger in the denser sub.
  26. Itances oF metals than in the rarer OF AIT, Water and
  27. Gta(S. NVor do I see but that metallic substances ot luct
  28. a thickness as mav Atthem to reReet the wtite ot the
  29. Ars order, may, by reason of their great density (accOr-
  30. dins to the tenour of the trst ofthele Propolitions) re-
  31. Aect aIl the Lient incident uxon them, and (0 DC as
  32. opake and splendent as its possible for any Body tobc.
  33. iold, or C opper mixed rith lels than halttheir weignt
  34. ot

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 61. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0237?run=74