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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 44, page id 1677894601:0054
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C44
perimenes; and sceing che Rays ihichdister in Retrangibi-
lier may be parted and Corced trom onc anocher, and chat
cither by Retraction as in the chird Experiment, or by Re-
Aexion as in che centh, and chen che several COrES aPARE aE
equal Incidences sufter unequal Retractions, and chole POrrS
are more retracted than ochers atcer separation, wrhich vere
more retracted betore ic, a5 in che sixch and Following Fx-
perimenes, andit che sunsLighe be trajected chrouoh chrec
ormore cross Prilins Successirelr, those Rars which in che
turst Prilm are retracted more chan ochers are in all chetol-
lomins Prilms, retracted more then ochers in che lame rate
and proporcion, a5 appears by che fitth Experiment; itS
manifest chac che Sun sLighe is an Hlecerogeneous mixture ot
RarS, Lome oF nhich are constanels more Retrangible then
Ochers, as was to be propoled.
ROP. TII. THCOT. TTI.
TheSuns Lieht consists of Pays differins in Reflexibility, and
those Pays are more Reflexible than others which are more Re-
frangible.
VFTIS is manifest by che ninch and centh Experi-
ents: For in che ninch Experiment, by curmine
the Prilm about ies Axis, uneil che Rays wichin ic irhich in
foins our into che Air ivere retracted by ies Bale, became
(0 oblique to thac Base, as eo begin to be torallr reffected
cherebr; chole Rays became Arst oF all corally reflected,
irtrich betore at equal Incidences rich the rest had suffered
the orearest Retraction. And che Came chins happens in
the Rellexion made byche commonBase of che cwo Prims
in cherench Experiment.
PR