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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 43, page id 1677894601:0053
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retracted Lighe OT ranishes ac T, the lels retracted Liphe
Ht ill become encreased whilst che more refracted Lighe
at p receires no further encreale. And as the erajected
Beam MIO in vanictins is alivars of such a Colour a5
oughe co retule From che mixture of che Colours ihich
fall uxon che Paper D T, Cois che retected BeaM NIDT al
prars ot such a Colour as ouphe eo retule trom the ix
ture oF che Colours itich Fall upon thC PaPeE pF. FOF
when che most retrangible Rays are by a eoral ReAexion
taken oue ot ehe Beam NTO. and leare thac Beam Ot aM
Oranse Colour, the excels oF chose Rars in the resected
Lighe, does noc only makce cheviolet, Indiso and Bluc at
Pmore FuII, buc aIso makces the Beam N N chansc FrOM
the velloith Colourorche sun sLighe, e0 a pale whice in-
clinins co blue, and altermard recorer ies rellowist Co-
lour asain, (0 TOon 25 aII the rest oF che cransmicced lighE
MIOTis reflected.
Nom sccing chac in all chis rarieer ot Experiments,
Whecher the crial be made in Liohe reflected, and ehat cithex
from natural Bodies, 25 in che Arst and second FxperimenE,
Or Specular, 25 in cheTTinch; or in Lighe retracted, and
chac cither betore the unequallr retracted Rays are by di-
verging separated trom one anocher, and losing cheir whire-
vels irhich cher hare alcogether, appear severally ot sere-
ral Colours, 25 in ehe Eteh Experimene; or atcer cher are
separated from one anocher, and appear Coloured as in che
Circh, Sevench, and ciptich Experiments; or in Lighc era-
jected chrough Parallet superticies, destrorins cach ochers
Fiffects as in che ioch Experimene; chere are alvars Found
RaYs, irhich ac equal Incidences on che lame Medium SuF-
fer unequal Retractions, and chac ichout aur spliceing or
dilatins oF sinsle Rays, or concingence in che inequalier
OF the Retractions, as is proved in the fitth and SIXTh LX
Periments;