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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 89

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The machine reads it as

  1. (89
  2. appeared aS Lo obseure one Ox twO OPthe innermost
  3. RingS. And theretore L uluallr placed the Speculum
  4. at abOUE SIX Feet From the Windoi; (O thaE IES FOCUS
  5. miohethere fall inrith the center oF its concariey at the
  6. Rinss upon the Chart. And this posture is alirays to
  7. be understood in the follorrins Oblerrations irhere no
  8. Other is exprest.
  9. OBS. C+.
  10. The Colours of these Rain-bours Cucceeded one ano-
  11. ther From the center outrards, in the same form and
  12. order rith those irhich rere made in the ninth Obler-
  13. vation oF the Arst Part oF this BoOK by Lighit not re-
  14. Rected, but transmitted through the trro Object- CilaReS.
  15. FOr, First, there as in their common center a white
  16. round Spot of faint Light, Pomething broader than the
  17. resected beam ot Lioht; wrhich beam Cometimes fel
  18. uxon the middle of the Spot, and Cometimes by a little
  19. inclination of the speculum receded From the midale,
  20. and lest the Spot prhite to the center.
  21. This ehite Spot mas immediately encompassed mith
  22. a dark orey or russet, and that dartness ith the Co-
  23. Jours oF the Frst Tris, Wrhich rere on the inside next
  24. the darknels a litele riolet and indico, and next to that
  25. a blue, irtich on the outhde srer pale, and then sUC-
  26. cecded a little greenistr vellorr, and alter that a briehter
  27. vellorr, and then on the outrard edse of the lris a red
  28. Wrhich on the outside inclined to purple.
  29. This Tris wras immediately encompassed rith a se
  30. cond, irhole Colours vere in order trom the inside
  31. VI
  32. Ont

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 89. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0265?run=74