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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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lour, and in all ocher propercies (o tar as my obserration
reaches, and cheretore are deservedly repuced ot che same
Nacure and Consticucion, and by conséquence che one is
compounded asmell as ehe orher. Buc afcex che most RC
Fransible Rays begin eo be torallr reflected, and chereby
Separared ouc ot che emersent LigheMO, chac Lighe changes
its Colour trom wrhice co a diluce and taint vellorr, a precty
sood oranse, 2 very tull red luccelirely and chen cotallr
ranithes. For atcer ehe mostRetransible Rays irhich paine
the Paper ac P rich a Purple Colour, are by a tocal re-
Aexion cakcen out oF che Beam oF lighe MIO, che rest of
the Colours itrich appear on che Paper at R and Y beino
mixed in che lighe MO compound chere a faine vello,
and atcer che blue and pare ot che ercen irhrich appear on
the Paper becreen P and R are cakcen awar, the rest irhich
appear beeireen R and Y (chac is che Vellor, Orange, Red
and a licele Crcen) being mixed in ehe Beam MIO com
Dound chere an Oranse; and irhien all che Rays are by re-
Aexiontaken out oF che Beam MIO, exceptche lealt Retran-
sible, irhich ac T appear ot a Tuil Red, their Colour is
thc lame in chac Beam MIO aS atcermards ac T, che RC-
traction ot che Prilm FIJK serring only co separace che
differenty Retrangible Rays, Wichouc makins any alceration
in cheir Colours, 25 Thall be more fully proved hereateer.
AIL ertrich contrrms 25 vell che first Propolition as che se-
cond.
Scholium. IFchis Fxperimene and che former be conjorned
Eig. 22. and made one, by axplyins a Fourch Priim VX Y EO re-
tract the refected Beam M N corards ip, che conclusion
will be clearer. For then the lighe Np irtich in che 4eh
Prim is more retracted, ill become tuller and Aronger
Wrhen che Lighe OP, itich in che chird Prilm IIYK is
more retracted, ranictres ac P; an d attermards inhen che lels
retracted