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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 76

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  1. Chymists obserre, that Vesitables (25 Lavender, Rue,
  2. Marioram, 1c.) distilled per se, betore termentation
  3. vield OyIS Without any burnins Spirits, but acter fer-
  4. mentation rield ardene Spirits ithout Oyls: Which
  5. Ches, thattheir OyI is by fermentation converted into
  6. Spirit. Ther And alco, that it OyIs be poured in smalt
  7. quantier upon termentatins Vesetables, ther distil over
  8. alter fermentation in the Form ot Spirits.
  9. Sothen, by the Foregoins Table, all Bodies Peem to
  10. have their retractire porreis proportional to theu
  11. densities, (or very nearly;) excepting (otar a5 ther
  12. Partake more or less ot Culphurous oyiy particles, and
  13. therebr hare their retractire porver made sreater or
  14. lels. Whence it seems rational to attribute the retra-
  15. ctire porrer oFall Bodies chieAtr, it not wholly, to the
  16. Culphurous parts rith irhich ther abound. For itS
  17. probable thât ail Bodies abound more or less with Sul.
  18. Phurs. And as Lisht consresated by a Burnins:sla(s
  19. acts most uxon Culphurous Bodies, to turn them in-
  20. to tire and Aame; (0, since all action is mutual, Sul-
  21. phurs oushit to act most uxon Light. For that the
  22. action betreen Light and Bodies is mutual, nay appCaF
  23. Trom this Consideration, That the densest Bodies irtrich
  24. retract and reflect Lisht molt stronsly grour hottest in
  25. the Summer-Sun, by the action of the retracted or re-
  26. Aected Lighe.
  27. I hare hitherto explained the porrer ot Bodies to re
  28. Dect and retract, and Thewed, that thin transparent
  29. plates, tibres and particles do, according totheir tereral
  30. thicknesles and densities, retleet sereral lorts ot raYS,
  31. and thereby appear ot leveral COlours, and by conte-
  32. quence chat nochins more is requisite For producins ald
  33. thC

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 76. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0252?run=74