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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 35, page id 1677894601:0207
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ries, Wrhereby rarious degrées of red very mueh incli-
nins to purple are compounded. This riolet and blue,
Which Mould succced this red, beins mixed with, and
hidden in it, there lucceeds a sreen. And this at first
is much inclined to blue. but soon becomes à 500
sieen, the only unmixed and livels Colour in this
Tourth Series. For as it verges tomards the rellon, it
Desinsto intertere rith the Colours ot the Alth Series,
by vhose mixture the succcedins vellou and red are
vers much diluted and made dirtr, especialy the vel-
Tor, irhich beins thereaker Colour is scarce able to
ther it selE. ACter this the several Series intertere more
and more, and their Colours become more and more
intermixed, till alter three or tour more rerolutions
in erhich the red and blue predominate by turrs)
alI Corts ot Colours are in all places prerty equally ben-
ded, and compound an eren rsutenels.
And since by the rsth Obserration the rays indied
rith onc Colour are transmitted, irhere thole of ano-
ther Colour arc reflected, the reason of the Colours
made by thetransmicted Lishc in che ochand zoch OB.
lerrations is trom hence erident.
IE not only the order and species ot thele ColOuIs;
but alsothe precise thicknels ot the plate, or thin body
at irhich they are exhibited, be detired in parts of an
luch, that may be also obtained by alsistance of the bch
or 1bth Oblerrations. For accordins to thole Oblerva-
tions the thickness of the thinned Air, wtich betwween
trro Clasles exhibited the most luminous parts ot the
trs (IX RInGS WVETC iocun 17oeB iybéce ipo 1 i PaFIS OF
an luch. Suppole the Lient resected molt copioully
ac chese chichresses be chebrishr citrine yellour, or con-
tinc