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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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phers. In eryins these chinss tis tobe obserred, that
by hom muchthe FToles L’and HI are narrorer, and the
interrals betireen them, and the Prilm oreater, and the
Chamber darter, by so much the becter doth the Fx
periment succced; provided the Light be not (0 Far
diministred, buc that the Colours at pt bc Cusficientr
risible. T0 procure a Prilm oF Colid Cilass larse enough
For this Fixperiment will De difficult, and therctore a
prilimatiek Vessel must be made ot politted Cilals. Plates
cemented together, and tulled wich Nater.
E Z P F R. TI.
The Suns Lishe let into a dark Chamber throush Fis. 2.
theround Holeti, halEan luch ide, passed Arst through
che Prilm ABC placed at the HTole, and then throush
a Lens PY Comethins more than tour Inches broad, and
about eishit Fcet distant trom the Prilm, and thence con-
versed to Othe Locus oF the Lens distant trom it about
chree Lcet, and there Feil upon a irhite Paper DF. IF
that Paper ras perpendicular to that Lishe incident up-
on it, a5 tis reprelented in the posture DL, alltheCo.
lours upon it at O appeared irhite. But il the Paper
beins turned about an Axis parallel to the Prilm, DC-
came very much inclined to the Light aS tis reprelen.
ted in the positions de and sc; the tame LishE in The
one case appeared vellor and red, in the other blue.
lere one and the lame part of the Lisht in one and the
lame place, accordins to the rarious inclinations of the
Caper, appeared in one case irhite, in another vellor
or redu in a chird blue, Whils che contine oC Ligtt and
Stractow,