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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 110

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The machine reads it as

  1. IITO
  2. mena are t0o various, and the Calculations Whereby
  3. ther follor From thole Provolitions too intricate t0 bC
  4. here prolecuted. Icontent my selF rith havins prose-
  5. cutedthis kind of Phaenomena 10 Far asto discovei their
  6. cause, and by discorerins it to ratits the Propolitions
  7. in the chird Part of this BoOk.
  8. OBS. ZTTI.
  9. A5 T ioHE retlected by a Lens quick-Cilvered on the
  10. back-Fide makes the Rinos oF COlOurS above de
  11. Ecribed, (0 it ought to make the like Rinos oF Colours
  12. in pallins throust a drop oF Water. AC the sIrA LC
  13. Rexion of the rars within the drop, Lome Colouis ouxtt
  14. to be transmitted, 25 in the case ot a LenS, and Others
  15. to be refected Back to the Fve. For instance, it the
  16. Diameter oF d Cnalldcop or slobule ot WVater De about
  17. the footh part oF an Tuch, (0 that a red makins cay in
  18. passins through the midale ot this globule haS 290 fts
  19. oFealy transmission ithin the globule, and that aIl the
  20. red-makcins rars irhich are at a certain distance From
  21. this midele rar round about it have 249 fits richin the
  22. globule, and ail the like rays at a certain turther di-
  23. Rtance round about it have 248 AEs, and aIl thole at a
  24. certain Further distance 24. 7 Ats, and (0 on: Thele Con-
  25. centrick Circles ot rars atter their transmistion, fallins
  26. on a irhite Paper, rill make concentrick rinos of red
  27. upen the Paper, supposins the Lighe irtrich pasles
  28. throueh one linsle globule Arons enouph to be sensible.
  29. And, in like manner, the rars ot othier Colours rill
  30. make Rines oF other Colours. Suppole non that in a
  31. Edir dar the Sun hines throuoh a ehin Cloud ot luch
  32. slobules

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 110. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0286?run=74