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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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must be a violet inclinins much to indico. At R erhere
che violet makins, indico makins, blue makins, and
one halE oF the sreen-makins rars are mixed, their Co.
Jours must (by the construction of the second Problem)
compound a middle Colour Detreen indico and blue.
AF S Where all the rays aie mized except the red-mi
kins and oranse makcins, their C Olours ousht by the lame
Ruleto compound à faint blue, vergins more to greeH
chan indie. And in the proorels trom S to T, this blue
willoror more and more taint and dilute, till at l,
artrere allthe Colours besin to be mixed, it end In
erhitenels.
Soasain, on the other side oFthe Wrhite at T, irhere
che least retransible or utmost red makins rays are alone
the Colour mustDe the deepest red. AF o the mixture
ot red und oranse rrill compound a red inclinins 13
orange. Ace the mixture oF red, oranse, vello, and
one half, oF the ereen must compound a middle C.Olous
betreen oranse and vellorr. AFx the mixture oF alt
Colours but violet and indico rill compound a Faint
velloir, versins more to green than to oranse. And
chis yellor ill grour more taint and dilute continuaIIs
in its progrels Trom x to n, Where by a mixture oF all
COrts oF rars it will become irhite.
Phese Colours ougheto appear rere the Suns Light
pertectly irhute: But because it inclines to vellor, theex-
cels oF the vellom makcins rays Whereby tis tinged rrich
thatCOlour, beins mixed with the taint blue betreen
Sand I, rill dra it to a Fdint sreen. And (0 the
Colours in order trom P to J oushe to be riolet, indico,
blue, very taint green, Wrhite, taint vellor, oranse, red.
Lhus it is by che computation: And ther chat pleale 10
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