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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 34, page id 1677894601:0206
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the center oF the. Rings outrard oughe to succecd in
order as they ivere described in the Ath and L8th OB-
servations. For il rou inore the Ruler gradually From
AHI. Throuet all distances, having past over the Arst
space irtrich denotes little or no retlexion to be made
Dy thinnest substances, it rill Arst arrire at r the violet,
and then very quickly at the blue and srcen, rhict
together rith that riolet compound blue, and chen at
the velloir and red, by irtose turther addition that
blue is converted into wrhitenels, wrhich erhitenels con-
tinues during the transit of the edge ot the Ruler From
 +0 2. and after that br the successrre deheience ot
its Component Colours, turns tirst to compound rellon,
and then to red, and last oF aII the red ceasetM at Lo
Phen besin thie Colours ot the second Series, Wrhict
Tucceed in order durins the transit ot the edee of the
Ruler From 5 t00, and are more lively than betore,
because more expanded and severed. ANd FOr the
Pame reason, instead ot the Former wrhite chere inter-
cedes betireen the blue and vellorr a mixture of orange,
vellorr, oreen, blue and indico, all irhich together ought
to extribit a dilute and imperfect sreen. 50 theC0-
tours o thethird Series aI lucceed in order; Arst, the
violet, wrhich a litele interteres with the red ot the se
cond order, and is therebr inclined to a reddim purple;
chen the blue and ercen, irhich are lels mixed rrith
otter Colours, ard consequently inore livelr than be-
tore, especially the green: Phen Follorrs the vellon,
Tome of Wrhich tomards the oreen is distinct and good, but
that part of it torards the succcedins red, a5 allo that
red is mixed rith the violet and blue ot the tourth Se-
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