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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 106, page id 1677894601:0126
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And Furthei, it the Comb be here made use oF, bY
Wrhose Tceththe Colours at theTmage PY may be suc
cessivels intercepted; the Spectrum S irten the Comb
is mored Romly ill be perpetually tinged rith luc.
celtire COlOurs: But wrtien by acceleratine, the motion
ofthe Comb, the succestion ot the Colours is (o quick
that ther cannot be sererally seen, that Spectrum S, by
a contuled and mixt senlation ot them all, rill appeai
Wvhite.
F. Z P F R. ZII.
The Sun Cinins chrough a larse Prism ABC. UPON
a Comb Z X, placed immediately behind thePrism, his
Lisht vrhich passed through the interstices of the P’eeth
Fell upon a White Paper DF. ThC BrCAdEHS OE tHC
Tecth rvere equat to their interstices, and seven Pecth
together with their interstices took up an Inch in
breadth. Nour irten the Paper Was about FWO Oi
threc Inches dictant from the Comb, the Lisht vrhich
passed throush its sereral interstices painted so many
ranges ot Colours kl, Mn, OD, gr, Oc. Wrhich Wecc
Parallel to one anocher and contiguous, and without anx
mixture otwrhite. And these ranges ot Colours, il the
Comb ras mored continually ux and dovn with a re-
ciprocal motion, alcended and descended in the Papei,.
and irhenthe motion oE the Comb ras (o quick, that
the COlours could not be distinsuishred trom one another,
theirhole Paper by their contution aud mixture in the
Senlorium appeared irtute.
F18. 9.
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