Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 112

Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. Mean line confidence on this page: 0.91.

Original at the GWLB · Page image · Annotations (IIIF) · Download text

The machine reads it as

1. (FI2
2. second abont sire degrees and an halt. Next about the
3. Moon as a Circle of White, and next about chat the
4. inner Crownerhrich ras of a bluistr oreen within nexethe
5. irtrite, and of a vellor and red without, and next about
6. these Colours vere blue and oreen on the inside of the
7. outrard CPorrn, and red on the outhde ot it. AL thC
8. Tame time there appeared a Tlalo about 22 degrces 35
9. distant from the center of the MOOn. It Wras Flliptical,
10. and its lone Diameter as perpendicular to thefloriron
11. vergins belon Farthest From the Moon. Jam told that
12. the Moon has Lometimes threc or more concentrick
13. Crorrns ofColours incompalsine one another next about
14. her Body. The more equal the globules oF Water Or
15. Ice are to one another, the mOre CFOWNS OF COlOUIS
16. Will appear, and the Colours rill be the more livelr.
17. The Halo at the distance ot 223 degrees From the Moon
18. is oF another COTF. By its beins oval and remoter trom
19. the Moon belon than abore, l conclude, that it Was
20. made by retraction in Pome Port of Hlail or Snow Aoatins
21. in the Air in an horizontal Potture, the retracting Angle
22. beins about 58 or 60 desiees.
23. F II F

Cite

Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 112. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0288?run=74