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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 62

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  1. 62
  2. oFSilver, or Tin, or Resulus oF antimonr, in Fusion
  3. or amalsamed rith a very little Nercurr become white;
  4. artrich lheurs both that the particles ot wrhice metals
  5. trave much more superticies, and (o are Linaller, than
  6. those oF Gold and Copper, and also that ther are (0
  7. opake as not to sutter the particles oFCiold or C opper to
  8. Mine chrouoh them. Nour it is scarce to be doubted,
  9. Bue that ehe Colours ot Grold and C opper are ot the le-
  10. cond or third order, and theretoré the particles ot vrhite
  11. metals cannot be much bigger than is requisite eo make
  12. them resect the Wrhite of the Ars order. The volati-
  13. lier oF Mercury argues that thez arc noc much bigger
  14. nor may ther De much less, least cher lose their opacitr,
  15. aud become cither transparent as ther do iten attenua-
  16. ced by ritrification, or br Colution in menstruums, Or
  17. black as thes do When sround (maller, by rubbins Sil-
  18. ver Or Tin, Or L ead, uxon other Cubstances to drar Black
  19. FInes. The Arst and onlr Colour which erhice metals
  20. takce by grindins their particles smaller is black, aud
  21. theretore their rrhite ought to De that vrhich borders
  22. upon the black Spot in the center oF the RingS OF CO-
  23. lOurs, That is, the wrhite ot the Arst order. But il rou
  24. prould hence sather the bigress of metallic particles,
  25. vou must altoir for their densitr. FOr ivere Mercury
  26. transparent, ies density is such that the sine ot inci-
  27. dence upon it (br my computation) vould be tothe
  28. FiIne OF itS rCFTaCtION, 25 7F t0 20, OF 7 +0 3 And
  29. theretore the thicknels ot ies particles, that ther mar
  30. exhibit the Pame Colours rith those ot BabBleS OFNN 2-
  31. ter, ouont to be lels than the thicknels oF the Skin OF
  32. those Bubbles in the prOpOrtiOn OF 3 107. Whence
  33. its Polsible that the particles oF Nercury may De as little

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 62. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0238?run=74