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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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added, that Colour ill not vanist or change its spe-
cies but be diluted, and by addins more and more irhite
it rill be diluted more and more perpetuallr. Last.
IV. if red and riolet be mingled, there ill be generated
accordins to their rarious Proportions various Purples,
Tuch as are not like in appearance to the Colour ot ans
homosencal Light, and oF thele Purples mixt with vel-
lorr and blue may be made other new COlOUES.
eROP. V. THEOR. IV.
WBiteness and al erey Colours betreeen rebite and black,
may be compounded of Colours, and the rehiteness of the
Suns Fisht is compounded of au the primary Colours
mint in a due proportion.
The Proos by Fxperiments.
F X P F R. IZ.
The Sun Mining into a dark Chamber throuoh d
little round Hole in the Windom Cut, and his Lighe
beins there retracted by a Prilm to cast his coloured.
Imase PT uxon the OppOsite WVaII: I held a wrhite Pa-
per V to that Imase in such manner that it might be
illuminated br the coloured Lisht reflected From thence,
and vet not intercept any parc oF that Lighe in its pal
lase trom the Prilm tothe Spectrum. And I Found that
irtren the Paper was held nearer to anr Colour than t0
the rest, it appeared of that C olour to irhich it ap
proached nearest; but wrhen it ras equally or almolt
cquaIIy
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