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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 94

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  1. 94
  2. Cireles made by the outmost red and outmos violet in
  3. the r2th Obserration oF the Arst part oF this Bo0k.
  4. OBS. VI.
  5. Placins my Fye rrhere thele Rings appeared plainest,
  6. ICarr the Speculum tinsed all over rith rares ot CO-
  7. lours (red, vellor, sreen, blue;) like those irtrich in
  8. theObserrations of the Arst Part ot this Book appeared
  9. betireen the Object-Cilases and upon Bubbles oF Natei.
  10. but much larger. And atter the manner ot thole, they
  11. vere of rarious magnitudes in various politions of the
  12. Eire, Cirelling and Crinkins a5 I mored my tire this
  13. War and thatmar. Ther ivere Formed like AreS OF
  14. concentrick Circles as those irere, and irhen my fiye
  15. ras ovrer agains the center of the concaritr ot the Spe-
  16. culum (that 15, 8 Fcet and 10 Tuches distance trom the
  17. Speculum) their common center ras in a right Line
  18. rith that center ot concarier, and with the Hiole in the
  19. Windor. But in other poltures ot my fivetheir center
  20. had other positions. They appeared by theLight oF
  21. the Clouds propasated to the Speculum throush the
  22. TTole in the Windor, and irhen the sun Bone throuoh
  23. that ITole uxon the Speculum, his Light upon it Wras
  24. ot the Colour of the Ring wrhereon it Fell, but by its
  25. Splendor obscured the Rings made by the Light ot the
  26. Clouds, unless rhen the Speculum ras remored to a
  27. sreat distance trom the Windor, Cothathis Lisht uxon
  28. ut mishit be broad and Faint. By varyins theposition ot
  29. my Lese, and morins it nearer to Or Farther from the
  30. direct beam ofthesuns Lisht, the Colour of the Suns
  31. sefected Liehe constantly raried upon the Speculum,

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 94. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0270?run=74