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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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they came nearer and nearer cogecher, and ac length be
came co-incident; and atcermards trhen Lvenc sil Furcter
Of, cher parced again in a contrary order, che violet b7 2
orcacer Retraction beins carried berond che red.
Exper. 8. In Sumer wtien che SunS LIGHE UTES CO
besrongest, Lplaced a Pritur ac ehic hole oF che Windon-
MHHE, 25 in che chird EXPCTIMCHE, vec (O chac ies AXis iohE
be Parallel eo the Axis oF che Nortd, and ac che opposite
Wall in the Suns refracted Liohe, I placed an open BOOL.
Phen coins six Fecc and erro Inches From cne BOOL, L
placed chere che aborementioned Lens, by vrhich che Liohe
rehlected From. the B00k miohe be made c0 converse and
incet 2gain ac che distance ot sIX Feer and erro Inches be-
hind che Lens, and chere paine che Species ot che BoOk
upon a Pheet ot rrhice Paper much afcer the manner of che
second Experiment. The Book and Lens beino made Falt.
Inoced che place vrhere the Paper rras, vrhen che LCrcerS
oF che Book, illuminaced by the Fullest red Lixhe of che
Solar Image Falline uxon ic, did cast cheir Species on chac
Paper most distinctly; And chen I stay d eill by che MIO-
cion of che sun and consequent Morion ot his Image on
the Bo0k, allche Colours From thac red eo che middle ot
che blem passd over chose Leccers; and wrtien those L ccrers
vere illuminared by chac bleu, I noced again the place ef
he Paper when cher cast cheir Species most distinctly upon
ic: And IFound chac this las place oF the PapeF WaS RCaTeF
co the Lens chan ies Former place by about erro Tnches and
an halt, or erro and chree quarters. So much looner chere-
Fore did che Lighe in che riolet end ot the lmage by 2 grea-
cer Retraction converge and meet, chan che Liphe in che
red end. BuE in eryino chis che Chamber wras as dark 25 I
could make ic. For it chese Colours be diluced and weak-
ned by chemixcure ot ans adrencicious Ligte, che distance
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