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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 113, page id 1677894601:0133
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(that wrtrich iras compounded of Orpiment, Purple,
Bise and Viride LAris) and rubbed it thickly uxon the
Hoor ot my Chamber, irhere the Sun phone upon it
chroueh the opened Calement; and by it, in the Mra-
dorr, llaid a piece of Wrhite Paper ot the lame bignels.
Phen coino From them to the distance ot 12Or 18 Fcet,
Tothat I could not discern the unerenne(s ot the Curtace
oFthe Porrder, nor the little ados let Fail From the
sritey particles thereot; the Porrder appeared intensty
erhite, 10 asto transcend even the Paper it selE in wrhite
nels, especially if the Paper vere a litele haded From
The Light oF the Clouds, and then the Paper compared
rith che Porder appeared of such a grey Colour as the
Porrder had done betore. But by lavine the Paper
Wrhere the sun Mines throuoh the Class oFthe Windo,
or by Buctino the Windom that the Sun mishe ine
throuoh the Class upon thePorrder, and by such other
tit means of increasins or decrealins the Lights irtere
rith the Ponder and Paper ivere illuminated, the
Lieht wheremith the Poirder is illuminated may De
made Aronser in Tuch a due proportion than the Light
rheremich the Paper is illuminated, thac ther MaII Boch
appear exactly alike in vrhitenels. For irhen I Was
eryins this, a Friend comins to vilit me, I Aopt him
at the door, and betore I told him irtrat the Colouis
arere, or irhiat Trras doins; Lasket him, Which ot che
tro irhites irere thebest, and wherein they differed e
And alter he hrad at that distance riemed them vell, he
ansrered, That they vere both good erhites, and chat
he could not Car which vas best, nor wherein their Co-
lours differed. Nou il vou consider, that this erhite
OF the Porrder in the Sun. Mine rras compounded of the
COtOUrS