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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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rated rars, did in the prooresstrom its end p, on rrhich
the most retransible rars Fels, unto its other end L, On
erhrich the least retransible rars tell, appear tinged wich
this Series of Colours, violet, indico, blue, sreen, vel
low, oranse, red, toscther ith all cheir intermediate
degrees in a continual succestion perpetually varyins:
S0 that there appeared as many desrees oF COlOurs, 25
there were Ports oF rays ditterins in retransibility.
AIZ P F R. V.
Now that these Colours could not De changed by re-
Fraction, Iknew by retractino rith a Prilm Lometimes
one very licele part oF this Lishe, Cometimes another
very little part, as is delcribed in the i2th fixperiment
OF the ArsE BOOK. For by this retraction the Colour ot
the Lisht ras nerer changed in che lealt. IF any part
OFthe red Lisht as retracted, it remained totally ot
the lame red Colour as betore. Ho oranse, no vel
lorr, no green, or blue, no other new C Olour Wras prO.
duced Oy that retraction. Neither did the Colour ans
rays chanse by repeated retractions, but continued al-
avars the lame red entirely as at Arst. The like con-
staner and immutabilier I tound allo in the blue, orcen,
and ottier COlours. S0 allo iFI looked throuoh a Prilm
uxon any body illuminated with ans part ofthis homo
oeneal Lient, a5 in the gth Fxperiment oF te first
Book is described; l could not perceire any nem C0
lour generated this ray. AII Bodies illuminated ith
compound Light appear throushi Prisins confused (as
WraS. laid abore) and tinsed rith rarious new C OIOUTS,
but those illuminated rith homogeneal Light appeared
throusI