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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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C723.
rie the Colours made by a Prilm rill fiud ie (o in
TTature.
Pheleare the Colours on both sides the irhice wrhen
the Paper is held betmeen the Prisin, and the point X
ertrere the Colours meet, and the interjacent wrhite ra-
nistres. For iEthe Paper beheld sill FarFHeL OH ErOm FhC
Prim, the most retransible and least retransible rays
erils be rantino in the midale of the Lioht, and the rest
ottherars Wrhich are tound there, rill by mixture pio.
duce a fuller orcen than Before. AIO the rellon and
blue rill nou become less compounded, and by con-
lequence more intense than betore. And this allo
dFrees rith experience.
And it one look chrough a Prisin upon a Wrhite Objeet
encompassed ith blackness or darkness, the reaion ot
the Colours arisins on the edges is much the Lame, 25
Wrill appear to one that all a little consider it. IF 8
black Object be encompassed with a Wrhite one, the C0-
lours ihich appear chrough the Prisin are tobe derived
From the LightoF chewhite one, spreadins into the RC
sionsoFthe black, and theretore ther appear in a con-
trary order tothat, in irhich they appear irhen a erhite
Objeet is surrounded with black. And the Came is t0
De understood when an Object is viered, vrhole parts
arc lome ofthem less luminous than others. For in the
Borders oF the more and less luminous parts, Colours
oughe alivars by the Came Principles to arise from the
excels of the Lisht oEthe more luminous, and to be of
che Came kind as il the darker parts Were black, but y et
to be more taint and dilute.
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