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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 98

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  1. returm to the trst, and by consequence there so out ot
  2. the Citals co che Chart, and form apon it the white
  3. Spot of Lishit in the center ot theRingo. For the rea-
  4. son holds 800d in all Torts oF rays, and theretore al
  5. Corts must 80 out promiscuoussy to that Spot, und by
  6. cheur mixture caule it to be irhite. Buc the intervals
  7. ot the Ats oF thole rars wrhich are rellected more ob-
  8. liquely thanther enter, must be greater alter recexion
  9. than betore by the 15th and 20th Prop. And thence
  10. it may happen that the rars at their return to the first
  11. Curtace, may in certain obliquities De in Ats ot caly re-
  12. Aexion, and return back to the Ouick- silver, and in
  13. other intermediate obliquities beasain in Ars oE ealy
  14. transmission, and (0 50 out to the Chart, and paint on
  15. it the Rinss oF C Olours about the white Spot. And
  16. becaule the interrals of the tts at equal obliguities are
  17. sreater and ferver in the less retransible rays, and lels
  18. and more numerous in the more retransible, theretore
  19. the lels retransible at equa l obliquities all make terver
  20. Rings than the more retransible, and the Rings made
  21. by thole Mall be larger than the like number of Rings
  22. madeby theso; that is, the red Rinss MaII be larger
  23. than the rellor, the vellor than che green, the green
  24. than the blue, and the blue than the riolet, a5 they
  25. ivere really tound to be in thesth Obserration. And
  26. theretore the tirst Rins oF all Colours incompassine the
  27. Wrhite Spot oF Lishit Ball De red rithout and violet
  28. within, and vellor, and srcen, and blue in the midale,
  29. 25 it ras found in the lecond Oblerration; aud thele
  30. Colours in the lecond Rins, and thole that Follo Chal
  31. De more expanded till ther spread into one anothei
  32. and blend one another by interterine
  33. Lhesc.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 98. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0274?run=74