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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 63

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  1. 25 the particles of some transparent and volatile Auids,
  2. and yet retleet therrhite ol the Airst order.
  3. Lastlr, For the production ot blacte, the corpuscles
  4. mult be lels thon ans ot thole which exhribit ColOurS.
  5. For at all oreater Rres there is t00 much Light reste-
  6. ctedto constitute this Colour. But it they be suPPo-
  7. sed a little lels than is requisite to reffect the white and
  8. verr faint blue ot the Arst order, they willus accoraie
  9. eo the Ath, 8th, 27th and rBth Oblervations, resseet
  10. lo verr little 25 to appear intensr black, and vet may
  11. Perhaps variouss retraet it to and tro rithin them-
  12. letres (0 lons, until it happen to be Aisted and lott,
  13. by erhich means thes rill appear black in ail positions
  14. OE the fire rithont anr transparener. And Fromhence
  15. mas be understood irtiy Fire, and the more subtile
  16. distotrer Putretaction, by dividins the particles oF (ub-
  17. itances, turnthem to black, irhy Imall quantities ot.
  18. Black substances impart theis C olour verr Frecly and in-
  19. tenssy co ocher substances to irhich ther are applied;
  20. the minute particles ot these, by reason of their very
  21. sreat number, easily orerspreadine the srols particles
  22. OF others; Wrhy Cilass ground very claboratelr rith
  23. Sand on a copper Plate, till it be vell polisted, maties
  24. the Sand, tosether rith wrhatis worn oHtrom the Cilals
  25. and Copper, become very black: Wrhy black substances
  26. do (oonest of all others become hot in the suns Light
  27. and burn, (erhrich etfeet may proceed partly trom the
  28. nultitude ot refractions in a little room, and partly
  29. trom the ealy commotion ot (0 verr (mall corpuIcles;)
  30. and irhry blacks arc ulually a litele inclined to a bluilte
  31. COlOUT. For that ther are (o may be seen by illumina-
  32. Cins irhite Paper by Lishe reltected trom black (ub.
  33. HanCCS.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 63. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0239?run=74