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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 82, page id 1677894601:0102
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TTole, and paraslel toit, and then (with its wrhite part)
chrouoh an oblons HIOleHI, wrhose breadth is about
the fortieth or sixtieth part oF an Inch, and irhich 15
made in a black opake Body GL, and placed at the
distance ot tro or three Feet trom the Prilm, in a pa-
callel situation boch to the Prilm and to the former
TIole, and ifthis irhite Lioht thus transmitted throuoh
the Hole HI, Fall asterrards uxon a Wrhite Paper pt,
placed alter that HIole H, at the distance oF three or
tour Fcet trom it, and there paint the ulual Colours ot
the Prim, suppole red at t, vellor at S, Sreen at Y,
blue at q, and violet at p; rou may with an iron Wire,
Or any such like Plender opake Bodr, Wrhose breadth is
about thetenth part of an luch, by interceptins the rays
at H, l, M, n OrO, takce aray any one oF the C OlOurS
aEC, S, L, GOr P, WrhilA the other COlours remain ux-
on the Paper as betore; or rith an obstacle lomethine
bisger rou may talce avaz any tro, or three, Or FOUL C0.
Jours together, the rest remainins: So that any one ot
the Colours as well as violet may become outmost in
the contine ot the Pado torrards p, and any one ot
them a5 Wveil as red mar become outmost in the contine
OFthe Bacoi corrardst, and any onc of them mav al(0
border uxon the Madon made within the Colours Dy
the obsacle R interceptine Pome intermediate part ot
the Licht; and, lattls, anr onc ol them by. beine
lest alone mar border uxon the Madorr on cither hand.
AII the Colours hare themlelres indifferenty to any
contines ot Phado, and theretore the difterences otthele
ColoursFrom one another, do not arile from the ditse-
rent contines of. Tador, Whereby Liont is rariousy
modified as has hitherto been the Opinion oF Philolo
PhCIS.