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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 21, page id 1677894601:0193
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also trom the lictle darker Spots irtrich vere rittr
IN It.
Behdes the atoresaid coloured Rinos there would
otten appear linall Spors of Colours, alcendins and de
cendins ux and donn the sides ofthe Bubble, by realon
ot lome inequalities in the subsidins of the Water.
And Cometimes Imall Black Spots generated at the sides
rould alcend ux to the larser black Spot at the top ot
cheBubble, and unite with it.
OBS. XVIII.
Because the Colours oF these Bubbles Were mOrC Cx
tended and lively than chole ot the Air thin d betreen
tiro Glasses, and lo more casy to to dittinguistied, L
Chall here sire vou a Further description oC their order,
a5 ther evere obserred in riemins them by reslexion ot
the Skies when oF a erhite Colour, wrhils a black Sub-
Ctance ras placed behind the Bubble. And they were.
these, recu blue; red, blue; red, Blue; Led, Srcen;
red, vellor, oreen, blue, purple; red, vellon, sreen,
blue, violet; red vellor, irtute, blue, black.
Thethree Arst Successions of red and blue ivere very
dilute and dirty, especially the first, irhere the red
Ceemed in a manner to be wrhite. Amons these there
was scarce any other Colour sensible belides red and
blue, only che blues (and principally the sccond blue)
inclined a litle to green.
Che Tourth red iras also dilute and dirty, but not
(0 much. astheformer three; alter that succeeded little
or no vellorr, but a copious green, wtrich at tirst incli-
ned a direle toyello, and chen became à preuy brisque
and