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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 135, page id 1677894601:0155
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3d
PROP. Z. PROB. V.
By the discovered Properties of Lisht 10 explain ehe per-
manent Colours of naturat Bodies.
Phese Colours arise from hence, that lome natural
Bodies resleet lome Ports oFrars, others other lortsmore
copioustr thanthe rest. Minium refects th= least re-
transible or red. makins rays most copiousy, and thence
appears red. Violets refect the mostretrangible, most
copioussy, and thence hare their Colour, and lo oF other
Bodies. Lvery Bodr refects the rays oF its omn COlOur
more copioussr thanthe rest, and trom their excels and
predominance in the reflected Light has its C OlOUF.
E Z P F R.. ZV. IL..
For is the homoseneal Lights obtained by the Colu.
tion of the Problem proxosed in the ath Propolition ot
ehe Frst Book rou place Bodies oF sereral CotOurs, jou
Will find, 25 I hare done, that everr Body lookS nost
Eplendid and luminous in the Lighe of its omn COlour.
Cinnaber in the homogeneal red Light is most resplen-
dent, in the sreen Lisht it is manitestlr less resplen-
dent, and in the blue Light AiII lel5. Indico in the
violet blue Lighe is most resplendent, and its splendor
is gradualls diministred as it is remored thence by de
orces throuzh the green and vellon Lieht to the red.
By a Leck thegreen Light, and next that the blue and
vello Which compound oreen, are more Aronsly re-
Aected