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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 92

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  1. vals, it with blue they rere totally blue, and (0 ofthe
  2. Other COlours. And wrhien they irere illuminated with
  3. any one Colour, the Squares ot their Diameters mea-
  4. Fured betreen their most luminous parts, vere in the
  5. arithmetical prosrettion of the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, anc
  6. the Squares of the Diameters of their dark intervals in
  7. the progrestion ot the intermediate numbers ;, 15 237 3:3
  8. But if the Colour as raried they raried their magni-
  9. tude. In the red ther vere largest, in the indico and
  10. violet least, and in the intermediate Colours vellon,
  11. oreen and blue; ther ivere ofleveral intermediate bis-
  12. nesles anlirerins to the Colour, that 15, greater in vel-
  13. lor than in sreen, and greater in green than in blue.
  14. And hence Lhnem that irhen the Speculum iras illumi-
  15. naced rith wrhite Lishe, the red and rellor on the out
  16. Tide ot the Rinos iere produced br the least retransible
  17. rays, and the blue and violet by the most retransible,
  18. and that che Colours ot each Rins spread into the. C0-
  19. Jours of the neisibourins Rines on cither side, atter
  20. the manner explained in the trst and second Part ot this
  21. Book, and by mixins diluted one another (o that they
  22. coutd not be distinguistred, unless near the center Wrhere
  23. theravere least mixed. For inthis Obserration I could
  24. sec the Rines more distinctiy, and to a greater number
  25. thanbetore, beins able in the vellor Lighe to number
  26. eishtor nine ot them, belides a taint Chador ot a tenth.
  27. Lolatissy iny selt hor muchthe Colours oF the several
  28. Rings Spread into one another, I meatured the Diame-
  29. ters ot the second and third Rines, and Found them
  30. wrhen made br the contine ot the red and orange to be
  31. the Pame Diameters irtien made by the contine ot blue
  32. erd indico, asg t0 B, ot chercabouts. F.OF iC Wus harc.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 92. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0268?run=74