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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 104

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  1. 104
  2. butcheir chickness, the Diameters oF the RinOS arC re-
  3. ciprocallr in a lubduplicate proportion oFthe thickneses
  4. oF the plates. And this Phers sufficiently that the Rinss
  5. depend on Both the Turtaces ot the GElaIS. Thev de
  6. pend on the conrex surtace because ther are more lu-
  7. minous when that Furtace is quick-silvered over than
  8. ertren it is without Ouick-silver. Ther depend aI(0
  9. uvon the concare TuTFaCe, because Writhout that lurtace
  10. a Speculum makes them not. Ther depend on Both
  11. surtaces and on the distances betmeen them, because
  12. their bioness is raried by varving only that distance.
  13. And this dependance is of the same Kind with that
  14. artrich the Colours et thin plates hare on the distance
  15. OF the TUIEFaCeS OF those plates, because the bione(s
  16. OF the Rings and their proportion to one another.
  17. and the variation ot their bigness ariling fromthe raxiz
  18. tion oF the thickness oF the Cla(S, and the orders ot
  19. their ColOurS, is such as ought to retult From the PLopo-
  20. Stions in the end oF the chird Part ot this Book, derired
  21. From the the Phaenomena of the Colours of thin plates
  22. set donn in the ArA Part.
  23. There are yet otter Phaenomena oF these RingS OF
  24. COlOurS DuE Fuch as Follo From the same Propostions.
  25. and theretore contirm Both the truth ot thole PropOsi
  26. tions, and the Analoey betireen these Rings and tne
  27. Rinos oF Colours made by very thin plates. I MaII
  28. Fubjoyn some oF them.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 104. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0280?run=74