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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 141, page id 1677894601:0161
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makcins the Body very thick, and pitchins ic on che
Back. Side to diminim the reflexion of its further surtace,
lo that the Lighe reflected trom che tingins particles
may predominate. In luch cales, the Colour otthe re-
Aected Light rill De apt to vary From that of thelighe
cransmitted. But irhence it is that tinsed Bodies and
Liquors rellect lome Cort oFrays, and intromit or trant-
mit other lorts, Bail be Paid in the next B0Ok. In thIS
Propolition I content my (elEto hare put it past dispute,
that Bodies have such Proverties, aud TheNCE aDDCAI.
coloured.
PROP. ZT. PROB. VI.
By mixins coloured Fiehts to compound a Beam of Light
of the same Colour and LTature roith a Beam of the Suns
direct Lioht, and therein to experience the truth. of the
foresoine Propositions.
Let AB C abC represent a Prilm by irhich theSun SFi8. 16.
Liont let into a dark Chamber throush the HIole L, iMav.
De retracted torards the LenS MNI, and paint upon it
At P, 4, F, S andt, theulual Colours violet, blue, sreen.
vellorr and red, and let the diversine cays by there-
Fraction of this Lens conrerge again torards Z, and
there, by themixture oF all thole their COlours, compound
a Wrtrite accordins to what was hernabore. Then let
another Prilin DF. C,dC8, Parallet to the Former, DC
Placed at X, to retraet that White Lighe upmards to-
Wards Y. L et the retractinq Angles oF the Prilms,
and their diltances From the Lens De equal,u (o that thc.
cays irtrich converoed trom the Lens torards X, and.
rithont retraction, rould there hare crosled and. diver-
sed aeain, may by the retraction oEthe lecond Prilin be.
reduced.