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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 90

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The machine reads it as

  1. L90
  2. outwards, purple, blue, ercen, sellon, lisht red, a red
  3. mixed rrich purple.
  4. Then immediately folloed the Colours of the chird
  5. Tris, irtich arere in order outrrards a green inclimIns
  6. to purple, a 800d ereen, and a red more brishE chaM
  7. that ot the Former Iris.
  8. Lhe tourth and fitth Tris secmed ot a bluistr green
  9. Within, and red without, but (o tamtly that it ras dit
  10. ficult to discern the C Olouis.
  11. OBS. TTI.
  12. Meaturins the Diameters oF these Rings upOn thC
  13. Charc as accurately a5 l could, I tound them al(o In
  14. the lame proportion to one anocher ith the RInSS
  15. made by Lasht transmitted chroush the tuo Object-
  16. ClaBes. For the Diameters of the tour trst ot the
  17. brishe Rinss mealured betireen the brixhtest parts ot
  18. cheir orbits, at thedittance ot six Feet trom che specu-
  19. lum Were 11
  20. 163
  21. N 2123 38 Luches, Whole squares are In
  22. arichmetical prosrestion ot the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4. IE
  23. che wtite circular Spot in the midale be reckoned
  24. amonest the RinsS, and its central Lastt, irhere it
  25. Teems to be most luminous, be put equipollent to an
  26. intiutely little Rins; the squares olthe Diameters ofthe
  27. Rings wilt be in the progrestion O, 1, 2, 3, 4, dc. I
  28. mealured also the Diameters ot the dark Circles be-
  29. circen chele luminous ones, and tound theis iquares
  30. in the progrection oE the numbers;, 15, 23, 3:, c.
  31. the Diameters oF the trst Pour at the distance ot six Fcet
  32. trom the Speculum, beinS 16, 216, 23, 370 Inches. IE
  33. che distance ot the Chart trom the Speculum iras in-
  34. crealed

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 90. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0266?run=74