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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 136

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  1. C
  2. 136
  3. Du: T3. Donet several lort oF. rays make vibrations
  4. oE sereral bignesses, trhich accordins to their bignestes
  5. excite senlations ot several Colours, much atter the
  6. manner that the ribrations ofthe Air, accordins to their
  7. sereral bieneses excite sensations ot several Counds:
  8. And particularly do not the most retrangible rays Cx
  9. cire the Mortest vibrations For makins a senlation ot
  10. decp violet, the least refransible the larsest for makine
  11. a lentation of decp red, and the sereral intermediate
  12. Torts ofrars, vibrations of several intermediate bigner-
  13. ses to make senlations of the sereral intermediate C0-
  14. lOUrS.
  15. Du. 14. Iar noc the harmons and dilcord ot C0-
  16. lours arise trom the proportions ot the ribrations propa-
  17. sated through the sbres. oF the optick Nerres into the
  18. Brain, a5 the harmonr and discord ot Pounds ariles trom
  19. the proportions of the vibrations ot the Air? For lome
  20. Colours areasrecable, as those of Crold and Indico, and
  21. Others dilasree.
  22. u. I5. ArenottheSpecies oF Objeets seen rrith both
  23. tiyes united irhere the optick Nerres meet Fetore
  24. they come into theBrain, the tibres on the rishie side
  25. otboth Nerres unitins there, and alter uniOn gOIne
  26. thence into the Brain in the Nerre wrhich is on the
  27. righe side oFthe Flead, and the tibres on the lett side
  28. ot both Perres unitins in the lame place, and atter
  29. union soins into theBrain in the Nerre Which is on
  30. the lete side oF the Head, and these trro Nerres meet-
  31. ino in the Bram in such a manner that their tibres
  32. male but onc entire Species or licture, halt ot irtict
  33. on the. rishe side ot the Senlorium comes From the
  34. right side oF boch Eyes throush che righe side ot
  35. Doth

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Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 136. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1677894601:0312?run=74