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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
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is the reason oE che compotition by irhich irhiteness
vas produced in this lixperiment, and by wrhat other
var foerer I made the like composition the relult was
Wrhitenels.
PasIY, IE rith the Teeth ot a Comb oF a due (2C,
che coloured Fighes oF the trvo Prilms irhich FaII uxon
the (pace PY De alternately intercepted, that spacc
T, irtien the motion ofthe Combis llon, Will alrays
appear coloured, but by acceleratins the motion ol
the Cob (o much, that che succestive Cotours can
not be distinguishred Erom one another, it will appeas
erhite.
F Z PF R. ZIV
Hlitherto I hare produced wrhiteness by mixino the
Colours oF Prilms. IFno the ColOurS OF natural BO
dies are tobe mineled, let Water a litele chickned rith
Soap be asitated to raise a troth, and alter that Fxoth
has Hood a little, there rill appear to onc that al
viem it intently rarious Colours everr irhere in thC
Turtaces ot the leveral BubBles; but tO One FMaL MAI
50 (0 Car oHfthat he cannot distinsuishr theC olours FrOM
one another, theirhole Froth ill gro irhite rith a
verfect irhitenelo.
E Z P F. R. ZV
Lastlr, in altemptins to compound a irtite br mixins
che coloured Porrders irhich Painters ule, I considered
chat aIl coloured Porrders do supprels arid Aop i
them a very considerable part oF the Lisht by irhich
thes