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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 96

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  1. LdC
  2. OF RIr, Nater, Or Gla(S OF an even thickeness appearect
  3. oF one Colour when the rars rrere perpendicular to it
  4. ot another wrhen ther ivere a little oblique, ot another
  5. artien more oblique, ot another when sill more oblique,
  6. and (o on; Pohere, in the sixth Obserration, the Lioht
  7. ertrich emersed out ot the Glass in sereral obliquities,
  8. made the Cilals appear oF sererat COlours, and beins
  9. propasated in those obliquities tothe Chart, there pain-
  10. ted Rinos ot thole Colours. And as the reason wrty a
  11. thin plate appeared of several Colours in sereral obli-
  12. quities oF the rars, ras, that the rays otone and the lame
  13. Tort are reflected by the thin plate at one obliquity and
  14. trantmitted at another, and thole of other POrtS trans-
  15. mitced erhere these arc reflected, and refected irhere
  16. thele are transimitted: S0 the reason why the thick
  17. plate oF Cilals irhereot the Speculum ras made did ap-
  18. Pear ot rarious Colours in rarious obliquities, and in
  19. those obliquities propasated those Colours tothe Chart.
  20. ras, that the cars oF one and the Came lort did at one
  21. obliquitr emerse out oF the Cila(s, at another did not
  22. emerse but irere refected back torrards the Ouick- siI-
  23. ver by che hither surface of the Clals, and accordinsly
  24. a5 the obliquitr became greater and greater emerged
  25. and rere retlected alternately FOr many suCCesIOnS, and
  26. that in one and the lame obliguity the rays oF one TOrt
  27. avere reflected, and those ot another transmitted. This
  28. is manitest by the Rest Obserration oF this BOOK: FOF
  29. in that Obserration, irhen the Speculum iras illumi-
  30. nated by any one of the prisinatick Colours, that Light
  31. made many Rines oFthe lame Colour uxon the Chart
  32. ith dark interrals, and theretore at its emergence out
  33. oE the Speculum as alternately transmitted, and not
  34. trans.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 96. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0272?run=74