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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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becrveen che places oF che P’aper willnor belo ereat. This
distance in the lecond Exporimone ivhere che Colours ot
nacural Bodies aere made use ot, ras buc an Inch and a
halt, by realon ot cheimperlection of chole Colours. Ilere
in ehe Colours ot che Prilm, which are manifestly more
Fuil, incense, and lively chan chose ot nacural Bodies, the
distance is erro Tnches and chrec quarters.. And ivere che
Colours Aill more FuII, I question noc bur chac che di-
Aance mould be considerably greater. For the coloured
Lighe oF che Prism, by che incerterins ot che Circles de-
Scribed in che rith Figure oF che sitch Experimene, aud al(0
by che Lighc oF che very briohe Clouds nexe the SunS
Body incermixins wich chele Colours, and by che Lighe
Scaccered by che inequalicies in che polith of che Prilm, Was
(0 veey much compounded, chac che Species irhich chole
faine and dark Colours, cheindigo and Violet, cast upon
che Paper vere noc distinet enouph co be well observed.
Exper. 9. A Prilm, Whole cro Angles ac ies Bale were
equal co one anocher and halE rishie ones, and che chird
a ristic onc, I placed in a bcam oF che Suns Lighe lec in-
co a darke Chamber chrouoh a hole in che W indo- (HUE
25 in che chird Experiment. And curning che Prilm AOWIY
abouc ies Axis uneil all che Liohe ihich vent chrouoh one
oF ies Aneles and as retracted by ic began to be reflected
by ies Bale, ac wrhich eill ehien ic vent out of che Clals,
P obserred chac chose Rars irhich had (uffered che greacest
Retraction vere looner reflected chan che rest. I conceired
cheretore chac thole Rays ot che refected Lighe, wrtich
vere most Retranoible, did First of all by a toral Reflexion
becore more copious in chat Lixhe chan che rest, and
chac atcermards che rest al(o, by 2 cocal ReAexion, be-
came as copious as chele. Po try chis, Imade che re-
Aected Lighe pals chrough anocher Prilm, and beins retra-
Ctec