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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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it thac Angle become lels (luppoie by depressins the
Globe to F.) there ill appear other COlours, vellorr,
orcen and blue successively in the lame side ot theClobe.
Butifthe Ansle be made about 50 degrees (suppose by
liftins up theClobe to G)chere Wrill appear a red Colour
in that side of the Clobe torrards the Sun, and it the
Ansle De made sreater (suppole by littins up the Cilobe
toHI) the red rill turn successively tothe other Colours
Vellorr, sreen and blue. Phelame thins lhave tried by
lettins a Cilobe rest, and raitins or depressins the Lye,
Or otheririse movins it to make the Ansle ot a just
magnitude.
l have heard it represented, that it the Light oF a
Candle De retracted by a Prilin to the fiyc; Wrhen the
blue Colour Falls upon the Fire the Spectator MaI lec
red in the Prisin, and wrhen the red Falls upon the Fye
he MaIl see blue; and if this irere certain, the COlours
oF the Clobe and Rain borr ousht to appear in a CON-
trary order to wrhat re find. But the Colours OF the
Canele beins very Faint, the mistakce leems to arile trom
the difficuler oF discernins irtrat Colours FaII on the
Fre. FOr, on thecontrary, Phare Lometimes had Oc
cation to observe in the suns Light retracted by a Prilm,
that the Spectator alivars sees that Colour in the Prilm
ertrich Falls uxon his Fve. And the lame Phare Found
true allo in Canele Light. For Wvhen the Prilm is mo-
ved llo ly trom theline which is drawndireetly fromthe
Candle to the Fye, the red appears Arst in the Prism and
thentheblue, and theretore cach ot them is seen When
it falls uxon the fiye. For thered pastes overthelive
Rrs, and then the bluE.
L. L1C.