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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 131

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  1. 131
  2. intermediate bignesses without chansins the Colour ot
  3. ot any lort ot Light.
  4. When theretore the FPair in the Arst and second ot
  5. thele Oblerrations as held in che irhite beam of the
  6. Suns Light, and cast a Mado irhich iras bordered rith
  7. chree Fringes of coloured Light, thole Colours arole not
  8. trom any newr moditications imprest upon the rayS et
  9. Light by theFlair, but only trom the rarious infections
  10. Whereby the sereral (orts oF rays rere separated From
  11. One another, irhich betore separation by the mixture
  12. OE all their Colours, compoled che irhite beam ot the
  13. Cuns Light, but wrhenerer separated compose Lights
  14. OFthe sereral Colours trhich ther arc originally dilpo.
  15. sed to exhribit. In this 13th Oblerration, irhere the
  16. Colours are separated betore the Lisht passes by the
  17. Hlair, the least retransible cars, irtrich irtien separa-
  18. ted trom therest makce red, vere inflected at a sreater
  19. dictance Fromthe Tlair, (0 a5 to make chree red tringes
  20. at a creater distance From the middle of the Thado ot
  21. thellair; and the most retransible rays wrtrich irhen
  22. Separated make violet, ivere inflected at a lels distance
  23. tromthellair, (0 a5 to make three violet Fringes at a
  24. lels distance from the middle ot the ador ot the Flair.
  25. And other rays ot intermediate degrees ot retransibi-
  26. lier ivere inflected at intermediate dittances trom the
  27. Flair, (0 a5to make frinses ot intermediate COlours at
  28. intermediate distances from the midale of the sracton
  29. oF the Flair. And in the second Obserration, Wrhere
  30. all the Colours are mixed in the white Lisht irhich
  31. Passes by the Flair, these Colours are separated by the
  32. various intlexions of the rays, and the frinses Wrhich
  33. chey make appear all tosecher, and the innermok
  34. 35
  35. Frinses

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 131. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0307?run=74