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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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Colour is produced, the wrhice is a mixture of altthie
Colours erhich the rays rould have apart, (PFOP. 5.
FiB. 2.) The cays in chat mixture donot tose or alter
their Sereral colorikick qualities, but BY aIL their various
kinds ot actions mixt in the sensorium, beget a senta-
tion ot a middline Colour betreen aIl their Colours
ertrich is erhiteness. For erhiteness is a mean Detiveen
aII ColOurs, havins it selE indifferently to them all, 50
as rith equal Facility co be tinged rith any oE them.
A red Porrder mixed with a litele blue, or a blue rith
a litele red, doth not prelentlr lose its Colour, but a
Wrhrice Ponder mixed rrith ans Colour is prelently tin-
sed rith that Colour, and is equallr capable of beine
tinsed rith ans Colour irhat-ever. Ithas been Cherved.
alto; that as the sunsListt is mixed oFaII POrtS OFraYS,
Lo ies Wrhiteness is a mixture of the Colours oF aIL FORtS
Otrars; those rars having trom the besinnins their le
veral coloritic qualities as Well astheir leveral retrangi-
Disities, and retainins ehem perpetually unchans d not-
Wriehstandins any retractions or reflexions ther may at
any time sutter, and that irhen erer any Port oF the
Suns rars is by any means (as by rellexion in KXpeF. 9
and 10. Lib. T. Or by refraction as happens in aIl re:
tractions) separated Erom the relt,s they then manitest
their prover Colours. These things hare been proved,
anA the sum oE all this amounts to the Propolition here
Fo DCprored. For it the Suns Lighe is inixed ot le-
veral COrES OF rarS, Cach oF Wrhich have originally cheir.
Cereral retransibilicies and colorikick qualities, and not-
withcanding their refractions and reflections, and their
various separations or mixtures, kecp chole their ori-
sinal properties perpetualr the lame rithout altera-
tiOn