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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 134, page id 1677894601:0154
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The Light irtrich comes throush DropsoF Rain by
truo refractions mithout auy reflexion, ouglitto appeai
Aronoest at the distance ot about 26 degrees From the
Sun, and to decar sradually both mays as the distance
from him increales and decreales. And the Tame IS to
be underctood ot Lighe transmitted through spherical
Hail-Rones. And if the Hait bC a litele Hatted, a5 il
otten is, the Light transmitted mar sro lo Arons at
a litele lels distance than that oF 26 degrees, a5 to form
a Flalo about the Sun or Moon; Wrhich HTalo, as otten
25 the Hail.Rones are duly tioured may be coloured,
and then it must be red within br the least retrangible
cars, and blue without bythe most retransible anes, espe.
cially ilthe FTail- Rones hare opake GElobules oF Sno in
their center to intercept the Light ithin the ITalo (15
Flueenius has obserred) and makce the inside thereotmore
distinetir dehined than it vould otherrise be. For
Tuch Fail-sones, though spherical, by terminatins the
Light by the Sno, may make a tlalo red within and
colourlesswithout, and darker in the red than rith.
ont, a5 Tlalos use to bc. For ofthole rars erhich pals
close br the Snoir the rubritorm ill De least retractedu
and (o come tothe Rye in the directes lines.
Phe Lightrrhich passes chroush a Drop ofrain after
tvo retractions, and three or more resexions, is lcaree
Arons enouch to cause a Pensible Bour; but in thole Cy
linders ofTCe by ertrich Fucenius explains the Parhetiu
il may pechaps be sentibole.