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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 116

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  1. C116
  2. the Paper Fromthe Flaii, When the Paper is nearer the
  3. Flair chan when it is at a great distance trom it.
  4. OBS. TI.
  5. The Chadorre ot aIl Bodies (Metals, Stones, Gla(E,
  6. Nood, HIorn, Ice, 1c.) in this Light ivere bordered
  7. ith chree parallet Fringes or bands ot coloured Light,
  8. erhereot that wrtrich ras contiouous to the thado Was
  9. broadest and most luminous, and that ertrich was re-
  10. motest From it was narrorest, and lotaint, a5 not calily
  11. to be visible. It was difficult to distinguist the C olours
  12. unless irhen the Light Fellvery obliguelr upon a (mooth
  13. Paper, Or Come other linooth rrhite Body, 10a5to make
  14. ehem appear much broader than ther vrould otherrile
  15. do. And then the Colours ivere plainly ritible in this
  16. order: The Arst or innermost Frinse rvas violet and decp
  17. blue next the padorr, and then light blue, oreen and
  18. vellorr in the midale, and red rrithout. The second
  19. tringe rras alinost contiquous to the Arst, and the thiid
  20. tothe second, and both rrere blue vrithin and vellovo
  21. aud red vrithout, but their Colouis rrere very taint
  22. especiallr those oF the third. The Colours theretore
  23. procceded in this order From the Madorr, violet, indico
  24. pale blue, sieen, vellorr, red; blue, vellorr, red; pale
  25. blue, pale vellour and red. The thadorrs made by
  26. Fcratches and bubbles in polistred plates ot Class rrere
  27. Bordered rrith the like trinses ot coloured Lioht. And
  28. ifplates ofLookins. glals 0op d offnear the edges vrith
  29. a Diamond cut, be held in thelame beam ot Light, thc
  30. Cisht irtich passes throuch the parallel planes ot the
  31. Cilals will be De bordered rith the like tringes ot Co-
  32. lOurS

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 116. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0292?run=74