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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 130

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  1. OF that P ighE in Wrhich ther were held. Inthe Full red
  2. Tieht thes irere totally red rithout any sensible bluc
  3. or violet, and in the deep blue Lieht they ivere totally
  4. blue ithout any sensible red or vellor; and lo in the
  5. oreen Light ther vere totally sreen, exceptins a little
  6. Vello and. bluc, which iere mixed in the green Light
  7. ofthe Prilm. And comparino the fringes made in the
  8. Lereral coloured Lights, I Found that thole made in the
  9. red Light irere larsest, those made in the riolet vere
  10. least, and etiose made in the oreen vere ot a midale
  11. bionels. For the Frinses with wrhich the Madtorv OE a
  12. Mans Hair rere bordered, beins measured crols the
  13. Chadou at the distance oF six Tnches From theHtair; the
  14. distance betreen the midale and most luminous part ot
  15. the First Or innermost frinse on one side ot the Mado,
  16. aud that of the likre fringe on the other side ot the Ma-
  17. dorr, ras in the FuIl red Lishe;: oF an Tncl, and in
  18. the FuII violet . And the like distance betireen the
  19. midele and inost luminous parts of the second fringes on
  20. either side theador rras in the FuII red Lieht :, and
  21. in the violet= ot an Inch. And these distances ot the
  22. Fringes held the lame proportion at aI distances Fror
  23. the Llair writhout ans lentible variation.
  24. So then the cars wtrich made chele tringes in the red
  25. Liont passed by thetlair at a greater distance chan thole
  26. did which made the like fringes in tho violet; and there-
  27. Fore the FTair in caulins these fringes acted alike upon
  28. the red Lighe or least retrangible rays at a greater di
  29. stance, and upon the violet or most retransible rays at
  30. a lels distance, and by those actions dispoled the rec.
  31. Lighe into larger tringes, and the violet into smaller.
  32. and the Lishus oE intermediate Colours into tringes ot
  33. intei-

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 130. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0306?run=74