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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 4, page id 1677894601:0176
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C4
vard Limb the red and vellorr. So that now their order
Trom the central Spot ras rhite, vello, red; black;
violet, blue, irhite, yellorr, red, Oc. contrarr to wrhat
It Wwas Detore.
OBS. TTI.
When the Rings or lome parts ot them appeared only
black and Wrhite, cher vere very distinct and well de-
fined, and the backness seemed as intense as Fhat OE
the central Spot. Alo in the borders oF the RinGS,
erhere the COlours Degan toemerse out oF the irhite-
vels, ther ivere pretty distinct, wrhich made them vi-
Tible to a verr oreat Multitude. I have Cometimes
numbred abore thirtr Succestions (reckonine crery
black and wrhuite Rirs For one Succeltion) and seeu
more of them, Wtrich br realon ot their Cmalne(s I could
nOt nUM BET. But in other PONtiOnS OF thC PTITIMS, at
ertrich the Rings appeared otmans Colours, lcould not
distinguistr abore cistit or nine ot them, and the exte-
rior ot thole ivere verr contuled and dilute.
In these erro Obserrations to sec the Rines distinct,
and rithont anr other Colour than black and wrhite, l
tound it neceltarr to hold my tive at a g00d distance
Erom them. For by approachinsnearer, although in the
Tame inclination of my Fse to the plane ot the RingS
there emeroed à blueitt Colour out ot the wrtrite,
Which by dilatinq it Celt more and more into the black
rendred the Circles less distinet, and lett ce irhite a
litele tinged with red and vellorr. L Found also by
Lookins throush a Dit or oblone hole, utrich Was
parromer than the Puxil oFmy Lye, and held clole to