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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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Colours irtich the component Porrders (Orpiment,
Purple, Bile, and Viride ris) hare in the Pame Sun
ine, vou must acknomledse by this Lxperiment, 25
vell asby theformer, that pertect wrhitenets may De
compounded ot C OlOurS.
From what has been Caid it is also crident, FHAL FHC
artriteness oF the SunsLight is compounded oF aII thc
Colours Whererith the severat Torts ot cars wrhereot
chat Lighe consists, Wrhen by their sereral retransibili
ties ther are separated From one another, do tinse P’apei
or any other irhite Body Whereonther Fall. For thole
Colours by Prop. 2. are unchanseable, and irheneree
aII thole raps rith those their ColOurS are mint agaIB
chey reproduce the lame wrhite Lislit as betore.
PROP. VI. PROB. TI.
In a mixture of primary Colours, the quantity and quality
of each beine siven, to tenores the Colour of the com-
pound.
s. II. Withthe Center O and Radius OD describe a Circie
ADF, and distinguittr its circumterence into leven parts
DE, E F, FC, CA, AB, BC, C. D, PropOrtiOnA) 10
ehe seren musical Pones or Interrals oEche ciohe Sounds,
Sol, la fau sol, la min fa sol, contained in an Fient,
that is, proporcional to the numDeIS 3, 163 203 5 10n 167
. L et the trI PAEE DF reprelent a red ColOUI, thC
second R Liorange, the third sC vellor, the Fourth
CTI orcen, the fiFch AB blue, the SXth BC indico,
and the seventh C. D violet. And conceire that thele
are all the Colours oF uncompounded. Lisht gradually
pasInS
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