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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
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Scholium. The lame chinos succeed normichstandinq chac
Tome oF che Circumstances be raried: as in che trst Px-
periment wrhien che Prism and Paper are any nars inclined
co the Horizon, and in boch irtien coloured Lines arc
drann upon verr black Paper. Buc in che Delcription ot
chele Experimenes, Phare sec donn Cuch Circumstances
by irhich cither che Phaenomenon miohe be rendred more
conspicuous, or a Norice mighe more casily ery them, or
by irtrich I did ery chem ontr. The Came chins Ihare
otren done in the follomins Experiments: Concerning all
irhich chis one Admonition may luffice. Nou From chese
Fixverimenes ic Follons noc thac all che Lighe ot che blen
is more Retranoible chan all che Lighe ot che red; FOr
boch Lighes are mixed ot Rars differeney Retrangible,
Sothat in the red chere are Lome Rays noc lels Retrangible
than those ot che blen, and in che blen chere are lome
Rars noc more Retransible chan thole ot thered; BUE
chese Rays in Proportion co che Whole Lighe are buc ferr,
and serve co diministr che Frene of the Experimene, bue
are noc able co destror it. For il che red and blen Co-
lours ivere more dilure and weak, che distance ot cheIma-
ses mould be lels than an lnch and an halt; and it they
vere more intense and Full, that distance mould be greater,
25 will appear hereatter. Phele Experiments may suftice
For che Colours ot Dacural Bodies. For in the Colours
made by che Retraction ot Prisms this Propolicion will
appear by che Experiments which are no to tollon in che
nexe Provosition.