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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 106

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  1. 106
  2. retlexion rere not in the lame planes with their Angles
  3. et incidence.
  4. OBS. ZT.
  5. ThC ColOuES OF the nem RingS tere in a COntrAEY
  6. order to thole et the Former, and arole alter thio man-
  7. ner. Therrhite round Spoc ot Lighe in the middle ot
  8. the Rinos continued rrhite tothe center till the distance
  9. ot the incident and reflected beams at the chart WaS
  10. about 3 parts ot an Inch, and then IE bDETAN EO SPOW
  11. dark in the midele. And when that distance wras about
  12. 17OF an Tuch, the Wrhite Spot ras become a Rins en
  13. compastins a dark round Spot irhich in the middle IM.
  14. clined to riolet and indico. And the luminous Rinos
  15. incompassino it ivere srown equal to thole dark ones
  16. ertrich in the four first Obserrations encompased them,
  17. that is to Car, therhite Spot as srovn à White Rinc
  18. equal to the tirst of thole dark Rings, and the ArA ot
  19. those luminous Rings asnor grovin equal to the le
  20. cond ot those dark ones, and the second ot those lumi-
  21. nOuS OneS LO Fhe Fhird OF those dark ones, and (O OR.
  22. For the Diameters oF the luminous Rings vere no lio,
  23. 163 233 320, VC. TMches.
  24. Whenthe distance betrreen the incident and reftected
  25. beams oF Light became a little Bigger, there emerged
  26. out of the midale ot the dark Spot atter the indico a
  27. blue, and then out ot that blue à pale green, and (OOn
  28. aster a rellor and red. And irtien the Colour at the
  29. center was brightest, beins betreen rellon and red,
  30. thebright Rings vere sronn equal tothose Rings Wrhich
  31. in the tour tirst Oblerrations next encompassed themm;
  32. that

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 106. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0282?run=74