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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 69

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  1. (60
  2. Nou il Lighe De reRected not by impingins On tC
  3. Tolid parts ot Bodies, but ty some other principle; its
  4. Probable that as manr ot its rays as impinse on the
  5. lolid parts oF Bodies are not reflected but stiffed and
  6. lost in the Bodies. For othervise Wre must alloW LWO
  7. lorts oF reflexions. Shrould all the rars De reffected wrhicp
  8. impinse on the internal parts of clear Water or Crystal,
  9. those substances vouid rather hare a cloudy Colour
  10. than a clear transparener. To make Bodies look black,
  11. iIS necestary that many rars be Aopt, retained and Iost
  12. in them, and it seems not probable that any rays can
  13. be Aopt and stisled in them irhich do not impinse On
  14. Their partS.
  15. And hence e mar understand that Bodies are much
  16. more rare and porous than is commonty beliered. Wa-
  17. ter is r9 times lighter, and by consequence 19 times
  18. rarer than Gold, and Giold is (o rare as verr readilv
  19. and rithout the least oppolition to transnit the mag-
  20. netick FMuria, and casily to admit Ouick. silver into
  21. its pores, and to let Water passthrough it. For a con-
  22. care Sphere oF Gold Alled rith Water, and Podered up,
  23. has uxon pressine the Sphere with sreat Force, let the
  24. Nater squeeze throuon it, and Aand aIl over its out-
  25. Side in multitudes oE (mall Drops, like dew, without
  26. burstins Or crackins the Body ot the Grold as I have
  27. been informed by an Fre witness. From all irhich re
  28. may conclude, that Cold has more pores than solid
  29. Parts, and by consequence that Water has abore Forty-
  30. times more pores than parts. And hethat aII find out
  31. an Llypothelis, by irhich Water may belo rare, and yet
  32. noc be capable ot compression by Force; may doubrlels
  33. by che lame Hypothesis make Gold and Water, and aH
  34. Other

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 69. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0245?run=74