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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 107, page id 1677894601:0127
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Let the Comb no rest, and let the Paper be remo-
red further From the Prisim, and the several ranges ot
Lolours prill be dilated and expanded into one another
more and more, and by mixine their Colours rill di
lute one anocher, and at lensth, wrtien the distance
oF thc Paper Erom the Comb is about a HoOt, Or a
little more (suppose in the place 2D 2F) they rilt
lo Far dilute one anoctrer as to become white.
Nith any Obstacle let aII the Lishe De no AOpE
Wrhich passes throush aur onc incerral ot the Teeth, (0
that the range of Colours irhich comes From thence may
De taken arrar, and vou rrill sec the light ofthe rest ot
cheranges to De expanded into the place of the range
caken drar, and there to be coloured. L et the inter-
cepted ranse pass on as betore, and its Colours Fallins
upon the Colours of the other ranges, and mixins rith
them, will restore the irhitenes.
LCt. the Paper 2D 2 F. be non very much inclined to
che rays, (o that the mos retransible rays may be more
copioulr reflected thanthe rest, and thewhite Colour
otthe Paper throush the excess ot those rars rill DC
changed into blue and violet. Let the Paper DC a5
much inclined the contraer rar, that the least retran.
sible rars may be nom more copioustr reflected than
the rest, aud by their excels the irhitenels rill De
chansed into vellon and red. The sereral rars there-
tore in that irhite Light do retain their coloritic qua-
lities, by wrhich thole ot arir Cort, Wrhen- ever ther be-
come more copious than the rest, do by their excels
aud predominance cause their prover Colour to ap.
DeaF.
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