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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 138, page id 1677894601:0158
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the retlected Ligtt rill be more in proportion to the
Lishe than they irere in the incident sreen Light, and
thereby rill dear the reflected Light From green tO
ards cheir C olour. And theretore the red Lead rrill ap
Dear neither red nor green, butota Colour between Both.
In transparentlr coloured Liquors tis obserrable,
that their Colour uses to varr vrith cheir chickenels.
Thus, For instance, a red Liquor in a conical Glals
hreld betrreen the Lighe and the Lre, looks oF a palc
and dilute vellon at the boctom ertrere tis thin, and d
licele hieher erhere tis thicker orors oranse, and erhere
etio RiIl thicker becomes red, and irhere eis thickel
the red is decpest and darkest. For it is to bc conceirea
that such a Liquor Aops the indico makins and violet
makins rare nost casilr, the blue makcing cays moic
difhcultly, the green makins cars Aill more dificule),
and the red makins most difficulelr: And that if the
thickness oF the Liquor be onty (o much a5 Tussicest
Aop a competent number oE the violet makins and in
dico makcins rars, Writhout diminithinq much the num
ber ofthe rest, the rest must (By PFOp. 6. F ib. 2.) Com
pound a pale vello. But it the Liguor De lo muche
thieker asto Hop alo à sreat number ot theblue maliv
rays, and lone of the green makine, the rest must COI
pound an orange; and irhrere it is (0 thick a5 eo A0]
alo a sreat number ot the green makins and a consi
derable number oF the vellon makins, the rest mul
begin to compound a red, and this red must sror deepet
and darker as the vellor makins and oranse makine
cays are more and more Aope by increasins the thick
nels oF the Liguor, (0 that seur rays besdes the red
makins can set throush.