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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 101, page id 1677894601:0121
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CIC
SoiEthe riolet, blue and ereen De intercepted, the re-
mainins vellorr, oranse and red irill compound upon
the Paper an oranse, and then it the intercepted Co-
ours De let pals ther will Fail uxon this compounded
oranse, and together rith it decompound a Wrhite. 50
allo iF the red and riolet be intercepted, the remainine
vellorr, green and blue, rill compound a green uxon
thePaper, and then the red and riolet beins let pals
Wrill Falluxon thisereen, and together rith it decom-
pound a Wrhice. And ehat in this composition ot irtrite
che sereral rays do not lutter any chanse in their colori-
tic qualities by actins upon one another, but are ouly
mixed, and by a mixture ot their COlours produce
arhite, may Further appear by chese Arsuments.
IEthe Paper beplaced berond the Locus Cr, suppose
at oc and then the red Colour at the Lens be alternate.
ly intercepted, and let palsagain, the riolet Colour on
the Paper willnot Cutter ans chanse thereby, 25 it ought
to do it che sereral forts ot rars acted upon one another
in the Locus C, wrtiere they crols. Neither ill the
red upon che Paper be chansed by any alternate Aop.
Dins, and lettins, palsthe riolet irhich crosseth it.
And if che Paper Deplaced at the tocus Ci, and the
Wrhite round Imase ac Ci be riered throush the Prilm
AIIK, and by the retraction of that Prilm De transtated
tothe place rV, and there appear tinsed with rarious
Colours, namely, the violet at r and red at r, and
others betureen, and then the red Colour at the L ens De
otten HopE and let pass by curns, the red at r will ac-
cordinsly dilappear and return as otten, but the violet
at r Wrill not chereby luitter any chanse. And lo by
toppins and lettins pass alternately the blue aE the
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