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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 93

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  1. to determine this proportion accuratelr. AIIO theC ir-
  2. cles inade successirety by the red, vellorr and green,
  3. differed more from one another than those made succel-
  4. lively by cheoreen, blue and indico. For the Circle
  5. made by the violet ras t00 dark to bC seen. Po Carry
  6. on the computation, Let us theretore suppole that thC
  7. differences oF the Diameters of the Circles made by the
  8. ontmost red, the contine of red and oranse, the contine
  9. OF oranse and vellor, the contine of vellon and green,
  10. the contine oF green and blue, the contine ot bluc and
  11. indico, the contine ot indico and violet, and outmost vio-
  12. let, are in proportion as the differences of the lenoths
  13. oF a Monochord irhich Cound the tones in an Fignt;
  14. sol, Jan fa sol, la mi fa sol, that 15, 25 the numDerS 5
  15. Iby 20 127 39 27 18. And iFthe Diameter ot the Circle made
  16. by the contine of red and oranse bc g A, and that ot
  17. the Circle made by the contine ot blue and indico be
  18. 8 A a5 abore, their diterence 9 A - - - - 8 A wiil DC t0
  19. the ditterence of the Diameters ot the Circles made Dy
  20. the outmostred, and br the contine ot red and orange,
  21. 25 25 F 22 F 22 + 27 t05, That 15 25 2, 103 Or 8 +0 Z, and 10
  22. che difference ot the Circles made by the outmost violet,
  23. aud by the contine ot blue and indico, 25 18 + 12 F 12 + 2
  24. 10 27 + 10, that 15, 45 27 10 31, Or 45 16t05. And there.
  25. Fore thele differences ill be s A and 20 A. Add the
  26. Fixs +09 A and subduet the last From 8 A, and vou
  27. Wvis hare the Diameters ot the Circles made by the
  28. least and most retranoible raYS s A and EZ A. These
  29. Diameters are theretore to onc another 25 75 t06I=Or
  30. 50+0 AT, aud their Squares a5 2500 t0 1681, that 15,
  31. 45 3 t0 2 very neartr. Which proportion ditfers not
  32. much trom che proportion ol che Diameters ot che
  33. Circles

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 93. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0269?run=74