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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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diluted aud roeateened till they cease. There may be
also Colours produced hy composition, resbichare not fully
litre any of the Colours of homoseneal Lioht.
For a mixture of homoseneal red and vellon com
pounds an oranse, like in appearance oF Colour to that
oranse irhich in the series oF unmixed prilmatick C0
lours lies betreen them; but the Light oF one Oranse
is homogeneal a5 to retrangibilier, that of the other 15
heteroseneal, and the Colour ot the one, it vieved
chrough a Prilm, remains unchanged, that ofthe othei
15 chansed and relolved into its component COlOuIs red
and velloir. And alter che lame manner other neish.
bourins homoseneal Colours may compound new C0.
lours, likce the intermediate homoseneal Ones, a5 Yel-
Porr and oreen, the Colour betreen them both, and af-
termards, it blue be added, there ill be made a green
the midele Colour ofthe thrce wrhich enter the compo.
Sition. For the vello and blue on cither hand, if ther arc
equa linquancits chey dram theintermediate sreen equal-
Iy torrards themselres in composition, and lo kecp it a5
it ivere in equilibrio, thac it verse not more to thc
vellor on the one hand, than to the blue on the othei,
but by cheir mixt actions remain sill a middle Colour.
Lo this mixed green there may be further added
fome red and violet, and vet the orcen will not present
Ir cease but onty oroi less fuil and vivid, and by in-
creulne the red and riolet it willoror more and more
dilute, uneil by the preralence ot the added Colours it
De overcome and tuined into rrhitenels, or lome other
Colour. E0 il tothe Colour ot any homoseneal Lignt,
che Suns wrhite Lisht compoled of aIl Toris oF rayS BC
addcd.