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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 105, page id 1677894601:0125
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Tou may instead oE ehe Lens ule erro Prisins HIK
and L. MN, irhich by retractinq the coloured Lixnt
the contrary ray to that of the krst retraction, may
make the diverging rars converse and meet again in 
25you sec it represented in the leventh Fisure. For Fis. 7.
irtere they meet and mix they riil compole a white
Light as irhen a Lens is uled.
F X P F. R. ZI.
Let the Suns coloured Image P P Fall upon the WV alI F15. 8.
OEa dark Chamber, a5 in the third Lxperiment oF the
AxIFBOOK, and let the lame be riemed chrourh a Prism
abc, held parallel to ihe Prism ABC, by Whose retra-
ction that lmase ras made, and let it nou appear lorrer
than before, suppole in the place S over against the red
colour Y. And it rou go near tothe lmase PY, the
Spectrum S rill appear oblons and coloured like the
LinasC PT; but it rou recede trom it, the Colours ot
the Spectrum S will be contracted more and more, and
at lensth vanist, that Spectrum S becomine perfectly
round and irhite; and il vou recede vet Further, the
Colours rill emerse asain, but in a contrary order.
Nor that Spectrum S appears irhite in that case irten
the rays oE lereral Ports irhich conrerse From the leve-
ral parts oF the linage PY, to the Prilin abc, are (0
retracted unequally by it, that in their pallage From the
Prisin to the tiye ther may diverse trom one and the
same point of the Spectrum S, and (0 FaI afterrards
uxon one and the lame point in the bortom ofthe lse,
ind there beminsled.
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