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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 33, page id 1677894601:0043
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ordered the Prisms and Paper (0, chat che red Colour ot
onc Image mighe Fall directly upon one hale ot the Paper,
and che violet colour ot the ocher Image uxon the ocher
halt oF che Came Paper; (0 chat the Paper appeared oF cwo
Colours, red and violet, much afcer che manner of che
Painced Paper in che first and second Experimenes. Then
rich a black Cloch I corered the W all Behind the Paper,
chac no Lighe miphe be reflected From ic eo dicturb che
Experimene, and riemino che Paper chrouph a chird Prilm
held parallel co ic, I Pa chac halt ot ic nrhich mas illumi-
naced by che Violetliohe co bc dirided From che other
hale by a orcacer Retraction, especially wrhen l vene a g00d
ay oH Erom ehe PapeT. FOT When I viewed iC EOO RCaL
at hand, che ero hals of the Paper did nor appear fully
dirided Crom one anocher, but seemed contiguous ac one
oF cheir Anoles likce che painted Paper in che trst Expe-
riment. Which also happened irhen the PapeF WaS EOO
broad.
Somecimes instead ot che Paper J uled a whice Thred,
aud chis appeared chrouph che Prism divided inco enO P2-
rallel Threds as is reprelented in che ioch Pigure, Where Fiz. 19.
DC denores the Thred illuminaced wich violet Lighe
From D eo F and wich red Liohe From F c0C, and de f8
arc che pares of the Thred seen by Retraction. IF one halt
oE che Thred be constanely illuminaced wich red, and che
ocher hals be illuminaced rich all che Colours successirel,
Cirtrich may be done by caulins one of che Prisms co be
cured abouc ues Axis whilse che ocher remains unmoved)
ehis ocher hale in viemino che Thred chrouxh che Pribm.
ill appear in a continued righe Linc wich che Arst haIF
Wwhen illuminaced ich red, and begin co be a licele diri-
ded from ic when illuminated rich Orange, and remove
Furcher trom ic irhen illuminaced wirh Vello, and Ailt
Furcher