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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 131, page id 1677894601:0151
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the intermediate Colours in the order wrhich their de
Prees ot retransibilies require, that 15, in the progrels
trom CrtoFI, or From che inside of the Bor tothe out
side in this order, red, oranse, vello, creen, blue, in-
dico, riolet. And since thele Tour lines OF, OF, OC.
OFI, may be lituated any irhere in the aborementioned
conical superticies, ertrat is laid ot the Drops and C0.
lours in these lines is to be underHood ofthe Drops
aud Colours every erhere in thole superticies.
Lhus MaII there be made tro Bows oF C OIOUIS, aN
interior and Aronser, by one restexion in the DTOpS,
and an exterior and tainter by trro; tor the Lishe De-
comes Fainter by every ressexion. And their LOlOUTS
Mall ly in a contrarr order to onc anothei, the red ot
boch Bours borderins uxon thespace CF irhich is be-
tireen the Borrs. Phe breadth oF the interior Bo
L.OF mealured crols the Colours Mail bC 1 degr. 45 mIn.
and the breadth of the exterior (OFI MaII BC 2
decr. 10min. and the distance betreen them (O L
Mall bC8GF. 55 min. the sreatest Semi-diameter oF the
innermole, that 15, the AnslC POF beinS 42 gF. 2 MIM.
and the least Semi-diameter ot the outermost POCr, bC-
In8 G0EC. 57 min. Phele are the meatures oF the BOWS,
a5 thes ould be rere the sun but a point; tor by che
breadth ot his Body che breadth of che Borsrill be in
creased and cheir distance decrealed by halt a degree,
and (o thehreadth os the interior lris ill be 2 degr.
5 min. ehat ot the exterior 3 desr. 40 min. cheir di-
Htance Bdegr. 25 min. the sreatest Demi-diameter oF ThC
interior Bon 42 desr. 57 min. and the least oF the ex-
erior 50 degr. 42 min. And such are the dimensions
ethe Borrs in che earens found io berery nearts,
WvHEI