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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 64

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  1. L64
  2. AanCes. For the Paper will ulually appear ot a bluisti
  3. wrtrite; and the reason is, that black borders on the
  4. obicure blue oF the Ars order described in the 18th
  5. Oblerration, and theretore reflects more rays ot that
  6. Colour than ot any other.
  7. In chese Descriptions I hare been the more particu-
  8. lar, because it is not impossible but that MilcrolcoDeS
  9. mar at lenoth be improved to the discovery ot the
  10. particles of Bodies on rrhich their Colours depend, it
  11. cherare not alreadr in lome meature arrived to thatde-
  12. oree ot pertection. For iEthose Instruments are OF Can
  13. be (0 tar improred as ith sufficient distinctnels to re-
  14. prelent Objects tire or six hundred times bigger than
  15. at a Foot distance ther appear to oui naked Fves, I
  16. Chould hope that re mistit be able to discorer lome ot
  17. the greatest ot thole corpuseles. And by onc that rould
  18. magnier threc or tour thouland times perhaps ther
  19. mioht aI be discorered, but those irhich produce Black-
  20. nels. In the mean wrhile I sec nothins material in this
  21. Discourse that mar rationallr be doubted ot excepting
  22. this POTtIOn. That tranparent corpuscles et the lame
  23. thichness and densicy with a Plate, do extribit the lame
  24. CoIOUr. And this I vould have understood not With-
  25. out lome latitude, 25 vell because those corpuscles may
  26. be of irresular Figures, and many rays must be oblique-
  27. ly incident on them, and lohare a Mhorter ray throush
  28. them than the length ot their Diameters, 25 becaule the
  29. Araitnels ot the medium pent in on aIl sides writhin Tuch
  30. corpulcles mar a lictle alter its motions or otner qua-
  31. lities on irtich the rettexion depends. But vet Ican-
  32. not much suspeet the last, becaule I have observed ot
  33. Come InaII Plates oF Mulcory-Cila(s irhich irere oF an
  34. erem

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 64. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0240?run=74