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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 111

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  1. CTTI
  2. globules oF Water or Hail, and that che globules are aII
  3. OEthe Came bignels, and the Sun seen throuoh this Cloud
  4. hall appear incompassed with the like concentrick Rings
  5. OF ColOurs, and the Diameter ot the Arst Ring oF red
  6. hallbe 7: degrees, that of the second 10: degrees, that
  7. oFthe third 12 degrees 33 minutes. And accordingly
  8. a5 the globules of Water are bigger or lels, the Rings
  9. Mail be less or bigger. This is the Theory, and expe-
  10. rience ansivers it. For in Fune 1692. l law by rellexion
  11. in a Vessel oF stagnatins Water three HTalos CFOWNS OL
  12. Rinos oF Colours about the Sun, like chree litele Rain-
  13. bors, concentrick to his Body. The Colours of the
  14. Ars or innermost C POwn ivere blue next the Sun, red
  15. vichont and irhite in the middle betveen the blue
  16. and red. Those ofthe second Cronn erere purple and
  17. blue rithin, and pale red withont, and sicen in the
  18. midale. And thole ot the third ivere pale blue with.
  19. in, and pale red without; thele Cromns inclosed onc
  20. another immediatelr, (o that their Colours procceded
  21. in this continual order From the Sun ontrard: blue,
  22. erhite, red; purple, blue, ereen, pale vello and red;
  23. Pale blue, pale red. Phe Diameter ofthe lecond Cronn
  24. measured trom the midale ofthe vellorr and red on one
  25. Fide ot the Sun- to the middle et the lame ColOur on
  26. the other side ras 9: degrees, or thereabouts. The Dia-
  27. meters oF the krst and third I had not time to meature,
  28. but that OF the Aes Seemed to De about AVC, OI SIX de-
  29. orees, and thar of the third about trvelve. The like
  30. Cxowns appear Cometimes about the Moon; tor in the
  31. beginnine oF the rear 1664, Febr. Igth at nishe, l CaW
  32. tuo luch Crowns abont per. The Diameter ot ehe Res
  33. or innermolt ras about three degrees, and that ot the
  34. second.

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 111. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0287?run=74