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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 72, page id 1677894601:0082
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cure oFche Clals. And it rou add che briohrer half oF che
Red, (thac half erhich is nexe cheOrange, and che briphteK
halF oF che Creen, (chat half irtich is nexe the YcllOW,) a-
Bont chree ftrh pares of che Lighe oF chese ewo Colours rill
Fail wrichin che lame Circle, and eiro fifch pares will Fall wich-
out ic round about; and thac which Falls ichone will be
spread chronoh almost as much more space as chac irtich
Falls wichin, and (0 in the orols be almost chree cimes ra-
FeT. OF che ocher halF ot che Red and Green, (chat is ot
the deep darke Red and Willor OrCen) abOUE OnC QUarECF
Will FaII wichin ehis Circle, and chree quarrers writhour, and
chat erhich Falls withour will be spread chronoh aboue Four
or sire times more space than thac irtich Fall within; and (0
in chc oross berarer, and it compared with che ihole Lighe
arichin ic, willbe abouc 25 cimes rarer chan all chac cakien in
cheorols; or rather more chan 30 Or 40 rimes rarer, bc-
cause the deep red in the end ot che Spectrum ot Colours
made by a Prism is very chin andrare, and che Willon Oreen
is Comethins rarer chan che Orange and Vellor. The Lighe
OFchese Colours cheretore bring (o verr much rarer chan thac
richin che Circle, will Ccarce affect che sense especially since
the deep Red and Willo. Orcen of chis Lighe, are much
darker Colours chen the rest. And For che lame realon the
Bluc and Violer beins much darker Colours chanchese, and
much more raritied, may be neglected. For che dense and
briohe Liohe ot the Circle, ill obscure che rare and weak
Liohe oFchele dark Colours round about ic, and render them
almost insensible. The sensible Imase of 2 lucid point is
cheretore scarce broader than a Circle Whose Diameter is
the 25oth part ofthe diameter ofthe aperture oF che Object
Olass of a 000d Telescope, or noc much bronder, il vou
excepe a fainc and darke mistr liglie round aboue ic, ihich
aSpectator will scarce regard. And cheretore in a Tele(copc
urhose