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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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NTorr Wrhils Bodies Decome coloured by reflecting oi
transmittins ehis or that fort ot rays more copiousY thai
the restu it is to be conceired that cher Aop and stisse i1
themselrestherars irhich ther do not rehect or tranlmit.
For if Giold be Foliated and held betreen vour Rye and
cheLisht, theLighe lools blue, and theretore massy Crola
lets into its Body the blue makins cays to be rellecte
to and Fro within it till they be sopt and stised, Wrhit
it relects the vellor-makinq outrrards, and therebs
J0oks vellon. And much alter the Pame manner that
LeaF-Sold is yeltor by reflected, and blue by cransinit.
ced Lisht, and massi Gold is vellor in aII positions o
the Fye; there are lome Liquors as the tincture o
Fionum Nephriticum, and Pome Ports oF Cilals which
eransmit ore Port of Lioht most copioussy, and retlect
another (ort, and thereby look ot Several C OlOurS, ac
cordinq tothe position oF the F ve tothe Light. But i
these Liguors or Glalles vere lo thick and massy that
no Lislit could set throuoh them, L quection not bu
that ther rould like alt other opake Bodies appear ol
one and the same Colour in all pohtions ot ehe fiser
though this lcannot yet attirm br experience. For al
coloured Bodies, (0 Far as my Observation reaches, may
be leen through it made sufticiently chin, and theretoie
are in lome mealure transparent, and ditter only in de
orees of transparency erom tinged transparent Liquors;
chese Liguors, a5 vell as chole Bodies, by a sufticient
chichnels becomins opake. A transparent Body irhicl
looks oF any Colour by transinitred Lient, may alla
look ot the lame Colour by rehlected Lighe, the L1gI
ot that Colour Deine reflected by the Further surtace o
ehe Body, Or by the Air berond it. And thenthe ie
Aected Colour irill be diministred, and perhaps ceale,
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