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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 91

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  1. Oc
  2. crealed or diministred, the Diameters oF the Cireles rere
  3. increased or diministied proportionally.
  4. OB5.
  5. IV.
  6. Bothe analoor Betwreen these Rinos and those de
  7. Seribed in theObservations oF the ArstPart OF this BOOk,
  8. lEuspected that there rere manr more of them erhich
  9. Epread into one another, and by intertering mixed their
  10. Colours, and diluted one another (o that ther cousd
  11. not be seen apart. Pviemed them theretore throuoh,
  12. Prism, 25 I did those in the 24th Obserration oF the
  13. Arst PaxE OF this BOOK. And Wrhen the Prism Was (O
  14. placed as by refractinq the Lighe oF their mixed C0-
  15. lours to separate them, and distinguistr the Rings trom
  16. onc another, as it did those in that Obserration, I could
  17. then sec them distincter than betore, and casily num-
  18. per ejoht or nine ot them, and Cometimes trrelve pr
  19. thirteen. And had noc their Lixhe been (0 very faint,
  20. Iquection not but that I mighe have scen many more.
  21. BS
  22. Plucino a Prism at the Windom to retract the intro-
  23. mitted beam ot Lioht, and cast the oblone Spectrum
  24. OF ColourS on the Speculum: I corered the Speculum
  25. Wvich a black Paper irhich had in the midale ofit a HIole
  26. to let ans one ot the Colours pals throuoh to the Spe
  27. culum, Wrhils the rest ivere intercepted by the Papei.
  28. And nou I Found Rinos of that Colour only irtrich Fel
  29. upon the Speculum. IF the Speculum iras illuminated
  30. vich red the Rinss ivere totally red rith dark inter-
  31. Nn 2
  32. Val5,

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 91. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0267?run=74