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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 32, page id 1677894601:0204
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Eu F, G, HI, let perpendiculars Aa, BB, 1c. De crected,
by wrhole intervals the extent ot the several Colours
Pet underneath against them, is to be represented. Phen
diride the line aa in such proportion as the numbers
1g 27 3,5, 6, 7, 9, 10, TT, Dc. Tet at the points ot divi-
sion denote. And through thole diritions From L
dear lines rI, 2I, 3Lg 5M, 6H, 7O, Oc.
Bo iF A2 bC luppoled to reprelent the thickness
oF ans thin transparent Body, at irhrich the outmost
violet is most copiousr reflected in the Airst Rins, oi
Series oF Colours, then by the 13th Observation LlR,
will represent ies thicknels, ac irtrich the utmost red
is most copiousy refected in the lame Series. AIIO
by the sthi and ibth Obserrations, A6 and HIN iii
denote the chicknecles at wrhich those extreme COlOuIS
are most copiousy rehected in the second Scries, and
A 2O and ITO the thichneses, at wrtich ther arc
most copioussy resected in the third Series, and lo on.
And the thicknels at wrhich aur ot the intermediate
Colours are reflected most copiousr, will, according to
the 1gth Obserration, De detined by the distance oF the
linc AHI From the intermediate parts oF the lines 2K,
6TT, 100, 1c. against irhich the names ot thole C0.
IOUES are Written belou.
But Further, to detine the latitude ofthese Colours in
each Rins Or Series, let A 1 design the leas chicknels,
and A 3 the greatest thicknels, at erhich the extreme
violet in the tirst Scries is resected, and Iet FTI. and
HIL delion the like limits For the extreme red, and
lec the intermediate Colours be limited by the inter-
medliate pares oF the lines II, and 3C against irtrich
the names of those COlours are rritten, and (0 on: BuI
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