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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 109

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  1. l109
  2. alter reflexion are equal in lensth and number to the
  3. fits ofthe Came cay rithin che Cilals Detore its incidence
  4. on the retlectine surtace; and theretore lince aIl therayS
  5. OF aII Ports at their entrance into the Cilals vere in a tut
  6. ottransmistion, ther ivere allo in a tit of transmission at
  7. theis returnins to the lame Curtace alter refexion; and
  8. by consequence vere transmitted and vent out to the
  9. Wrtrite Rins on theChart. Thisisthe realon why chat
  10. Rins ras ol the Came bionels in aIl the Colours, aud
  11. irhy in a mixture oE all ic appears wrhite. But in FaYS
  12. irtrich are retlected in other Angles, the interrals ot che
  13. ts of the least retransible beins createst, make the
  14. Rinos oftheir Colour in their proerels from this irhite
  15. Ring, either outards or inmards, increase or decrease
  16. by the greatest Ceps; (0 that the RingsOF this C olour
  17. rithout are greatest, and rithin least. And thisisthe
  18. reason wrhr in the last Obserration, When the Specu-
  19. lum ras illuminated writh white Lisht, che exterior
  20. Rings made by alI Colours appeared red without aud
  21. blue richin, and the interior blue without and red
  22. Writhim.
  23. Thele are the Phaenomena oF thick CONVeXO COnCaVC
  24. plates oF Gila(s, vrhich are every wrhrere oFthe lamE
  25. thicknels. There are vet other Phaenomena Wrhen thele
  26. plates are a little thieker on one side than on the
  27. other, and others irhen the plates are more or lels con-
  28. care than ConVex, Or plano Conrex, or double- COnvex.
  29. For in all these cases the plates make Rings OFC OIOUTS,
  30. but alter various manners; all trich, 10 tar a5 lhave
  31. yet obserred, tollon from the Propolitions in the end
  32. oFthe chird part of this Book, and (0 conspire to con
  33. tem the truth oE. those Propolicions. But che Phaeno
  34. MEMa

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 109. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0285?run=74