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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 104, page id 1677894601:0124
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But il the impressions follou onc anocher (o quickl
that ther cannot be severally perceired, there ariseth
out ot them ail one common sentation, Wrhich is net
ther oF this Colour alone nor ofthat alone, but hath it
selF indifferentlr to em aIl, and this is a sensation ob
arhiteness. By the quickness ot the succestions the im
prections ofthe sereral Colours are contounded in FhC
Senlorium, and ont ot that contntion arileth a mixt sen-
Cation. IF a burnino Coal benimbly moved round in a
Circle rith Crrations continually repeated, the irhole
Circle will appear liketire; the realon ot wrtrich is, that
the sensation oF the Coal in the several places oF that
Circle remains imprest on the sensorium, until the
Coat return again to the same place. And (0 in a
quick consecution of the Colours the imprection ot every
Colour remains in the Senlorium, until a rerolution ot
alt the Colours De compleated, and FhaL AEC COIOUE re-
turnagain. Theimpressions cheretoreot all the successire
Colours are at once in thesentorium, and joynelr sir up
a senlation of them alI; and lo it is manitest by this F X
periment, that the commixe impreltions oF aII the CO-
Jours do cir up and Deget a senlation ot irhite, thac 15,
that erhiteness is compounded ot aII the COlOurS.
And if the Comb De non taken arrar, chat all the
Colours mar at once pals from the Lens to the Papei
and be there intermixed, and tosether retlected thence
to the Spectators Lyes; their imprections on the Senlo.
rium beins nor more subtily and perfectlr commixed
chere, ought much more toltir up a senlation ofihite
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