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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 28, page id 1677894601:0200
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28)
Glases; or by comparinq tuo Bubbles oF Water blonn
et distant times, in the Arst oF wrhrich che whitenels
appeared, wtich succeeded aHI the Colours, and in
ehe other, the rrhiteness irhich preceded them alL
OBS. ZZIV.
Wrtien the erro Object-Glasses rere lay d upon one
another, (0 a5 to make the Rinos OF the COIOUES aP-
Dear, though rith iny nakced Lyc I could not discern
abore 8 Or 9 ot thole Rings, vet by riemins them
throuoh a Prism I have seen a tar greater multitude,
infomuch that L could number more than forer Besides
many others, that ere (0 very (mall and clole toge-
ther, that I could not kecp my Lye Ceddy on them
Tererally (0 a5 to number them, but by their extent Thare
Fometimes eltimated tnem to De more than a hundied.
And Ibeliere the Lxperiment mar be improved tothe
discovery ot tar greater numbers. For they seem to
De really unlimited, thoush rilible onty (0 tar a5 they
can be separated by the refraction, as l Mall herealter
explaim.
But it ras but one sde et these Rinos, nametv, that
torards wrhich the retraction ras made, wrhich by that
retraction ras rendered distinet, and the other (ide be-
came more contuled than whren vierred by the naked
Fre, insomuch that there I could noc discern abore
one or tiro, and lometimes none ot thole Rings, ot
prtrich I could discern eight or nine rith my naked
Ere. And their Segments or AICS, Wrhich on the
other side appeared (o numerOUS, For the mott Part
excecded