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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 90, page id 1677894601:0110
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From ail Wrhich it is manitest, that if the Suns Light
consisted ot but one Port oF rays, there would be but
one Colour in the Wwhole Worid, nor mould it be pol-
Sible co produce anr ne Colour by rellexions and ie
Fractions, and by consequence that the rariety oF C0.
lours depends upon the compolition ot Lisht.
DF F TNTT TON.
Thehomoseneal lighc. aud rays wtricti appear redq
or rather make Objects appear (0, L call rubrific
or red makns; thole erhich make Objects appear
vello, oreen, blue and violet, I call vello-ma-
kins, sreen makins bluc- makrimg, violet-makine,
and (o oftherest. And itat any cime I speak ot
lioht and rars as coloured or endued rith C0-
lours, Iirould De understood to (peak not philo.
Cophically and properir, but grolly, and accor-
dins to luch conceptions as rulsar People in sec-
ins all these Experiments rould De apt to Frame.
Lor the rays to speak property are not coloured.
In them there is nothine elle than a certain porver
and dispolition to stir up a sentation ot this or that
ColOUT. For as Pound in a Bell or muticalStrins,
Ox other Coundins Bod, is nothins but a trem-
blino Mocion, and in the Air nothino but that
Motion propasated trom the Object, and in the
Senlorium tis a senle oF tliat Motion under the
torm ot lound; (o Colours in. the Obiect are no-
thins but a dispolition to reflect this or that COrF
ot rays more copioully than the rett; in the rayS
cher are nochins but their dispolitions to propa-
sate