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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 108

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  1. C108)
  2. TigHt and che Diameter oF the irhite Rins (Wrtick
  3. ras no become the third Rins) beins about z In-
  4. CheS.
  5. The Colours of the Rings in the middle Be~an nOu
  6. to oro very dilute, and it the distance betreen thc
  7. erro beams vas increaled halt an Tuch, or an Inch inOre,
  8. ther vanisted erhilst the erhite Rins, rith onc or tvo
  9. oF the Rings next it on cither side, continued sill vi-
  10. Sible. But il the distance of the tro beams oF Lioht
  11. aras siIl more increased these also ranistred: For the
  12. Lioht Which comins From Ceveral parts ot the TTole in
  13. the Windo Fell upon the Speculum in sereral Angles oF
  14. incidence nade Rings oF sereral bignesses, irhich diluted
  15. and blotted out one another, a5 l knew by interceptino
  16. Pome part of that Lioht. For it l intercepted that part
  17. erhich ras nearest to the AXis ot the Speculum the
  18. Rings rould bc lels, it the other part erhich as re
  19. motest From it ther rould be bisger.
  20. OB5. XII.
  21. When the C Olours oF the Prisin vere cast successirely
  22. on theSpeculum, thac Rins irhich in the trro lastOB.
  23. Terrations was white, as ot the tame bionels in aIl the
  24. COlours. Dut the Rinos without it ivere oreater in the
  25. oreen than in the blue, and Aill srcater in the vellon,
  26. and sreatest in the red. And, on the contrarr, the
  27. Rings wichin that irtite Circle ivere less in the orcen
  28. than in the blue, and siil lels in the vellorr, and least
  29. in the red. For the Aneles oF resexion OF those raYS
  30. irtrich made this Rins Deins equal to their Angles ot
  31. incidence, the ftsol every retlected ras within the Cila(s
  32. after

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 108. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0284?run=74