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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 116, page id 1677894601:0136
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but halfCo intense, that is, it hall BC Fuch a Cotour 45
rould bemade by diluting the intensest vellon with an
equal quantitr ot wrhiteness; and it it Fai uxon the
center O, the Colour Mall tare los all its intensenels,
ond become a irhrite. Butit is to be noted, That iF the
point Z. FaIl in or near the line OD, the main insredients
beino the red and riolet, the Colour compounded MalL
not beany of the prilmatic Colours, but a purple, I1I.
clining to red or violet, accordinsly as thie point L
lieth on the side oF the line DO FoWAEdS F. Or Forrards C9
and in general thecompounded violet is more brisht and
more tiery thanthe uncompounded. AIIO it only tro
ot the primary Colours wrhich in the Circle arc oppolite
to one another De mixed in an equil proportion, the
DOint Z MaII FaII uxon the center O, and vet the C0.
lour compounded ot thole trro haIl not be pertectli
ehite, but Come faint anonymous Colour. For I could
never ret br mixins only trro primary Colours produce
a pertect irhite. Whether it mar De compounded ot a
mixture ot three taken at equal distances in the circum-
Ference Idonot KROW DUEOFTOUT Or Are I de not much
question but it mav. But these are curiosities oF litrle
or no moment to the understandins the Phaenomena ot
nature. For in aIl wrhites produced by nature, there
uses to be a mixture oF aII Ports ot rays, and by conse
quence a composition oF aII C olours.
lo sire an instance ofthis Rule; suppose a Colour is
compounded ot thele homogencal Colours, ot riolet
 part, ot indico I part, OF blue 2 Parts, OForeen Z partS,
Ot vellorr s parts, OF oranse 6 Parts, and ot red 10 parts.
Proportional to thele parts l delcribe the Circles X, V, l,
Sg F, G. P respectirely, that 15, (0 that if the Circle X