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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 107

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  1. IIC
  2. that is to Cay, the irhite Spot in the middle oFthose
  3. Rings iras no become à irhite Rins equal to the Arst
  4. OE those brisht Rings, and the tirst of those bright ones
  5. vas no become equal to the second os thole, and lo
  6. On. For the Diameters of the white Rings, and of thc
  7. Other luminous Rines incompaltins it, Were no Tis,
  8. 20, 212, 38, 1c. Or thereabouts.
  9. When thedistance of the trro beams ot Light at the
  10. Chart as à little more increaled, there emerged out
  11. oE the midele in order after the red, a purple, a blue,
  12. asreen, a vellorr, and a red inclinins much to purple,
  13. and ertien the Colour ras hrishtest being betrreen vel-
  14. lorr and red, the Former indico, blue, oreen, vellou and
  15. redq rese become an lris or Rins ot Colours equal
  16. tothe tirst oF thole luminous Rines wrhich appeared in
  17. the Four Arst Obserrations, and the white Rins erhrich
  18. ras non become the second ot the luminous RingS WraS
  19. srown equal to the second ot those, and the ArA ot
  20. those wrhich was non become the third Rins ras be-
  21. come the third ot those, and (0 on. For their Diame
  22. Ters Were 1i6, 25, 212, 38 Tnches, the distance of the
  23. crvo beams ot Light, and the Diameter ot the wrhite
  24. Rins beins 23 luches.
  25. When thele trro beams became more distant there
  26. emersed out oF the midele oF the purplistr red, tirst a
  27. darker round Spot, and then out ot the midale of that
  28. Spot a brishter. And nor theformer Colours (purple,
  29. blue, Ercen, vello, and purplit red) rere become 2
  30. Rins equal to the tirst of the briehe Rings mentioned in
  31. che Four tirst Obserrations, and the Rins about thIS
  32. Ring ivere sronn equal to the Rinos about that re-
  33. rectively; che distance betreen the trro beams ol
  34. L. 18t

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 107. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0283?run=74