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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 102

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  1. C10
  2. them (viz. Writh 113, 23, 22 and 33 Tnches, and there.
  3. Fore the Theory ot deriring these Rines From thethick-
  4. ness oFthe plate oF Glals of ertrich the Speculum Was
  5. made, and from the obliguier of the emersins cars agrees
  6. rith the Obserration. In this computation I have
  7. equalled the Diameters ot the briont Rinos made by
  8. Lieht ot aIl Colours, to the Diameters ot the Rinos
  9. made by the brighe vellor. For this vellor makes the
  10. briohtest part oF the Rines oF aII ColOuES. IF rou deBre
  11. the Diameters oF the Rings made by the Light oF any
  12. other unmixed Colour, rou may find them readily by
  13. puttins them to the Diameters of the bright vellonr ones
  14. in a subduplicate proportion ot the interrals of the Ats
  15. otthe rays oF those Colours wrten equally inclined to
  16. the retractins or reflectine surtace ertrich caused thole
  17. Fts, that is, by putting the Diameters oF the Rings made
  18. by the rays in the extremities and limits of the seren
  19. Colours, red orange, vellor, green, blue, indico, violet
  20. proportional the Cube-roots oF the numbers, 1, 8, 3,3
  21. 353 163 2 Wrhich express the lenotho oF a Monochard
  22. Toundins the notes in an Fioht: For by chis means the
  23. Diameter ot the Rinos ot these Colours will be Found
  24. preter neaxty in the same proportion to one another.
  25. Wrhichther oughe to have by the Aitth oF thele Obser-
  26. rations.
  27. And EuS I Catistied my selF that these RingS vere OF
  28. the same kind and original rith thole ot thin plates,
  29. and by consequence that the tts or alternate disposi
  30. tions oF the rays to be reflected and transmitted axe PTO
  31. Pasated to great distances trom every reflectins and re-
  32. Fractins Curtace. But vet to put the matter out of doube
  33. l added the follorinu Obserration.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 102. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0278?run=74