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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 41, page id 1677894601:0213
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Rinos irhich wrhen viered at a distance appear distinet,
hould noc only become contuled by riemins them near
ac hrand, but also vield a violet Colour at boch che
edges ot erery irhite Rins. And the realon is, thae che
cays irhich enter the Lye at sereral parts of thePupil,
trare several obliguities to the CilaBes, and thole wrhrich
are most oblique, it considered apart, rould represent
ehe Rinss bisger than thole irhichare the least oblique.
Nhence chebreadth. of the perimeter ot erery wrhite
Rins is expanded outrards by the obliquest FaYS,
and inmards by the least oblique. And this expantion
15 (0 much the greater by ho much the greater is thc
difference of the obliquier; that is, by hon much the
Puxil is rider, or the Fre nearer tothe Cilases. And
the breadth ot che violet must be molt expanded, De-
cause the rars apt to exeite à senlation ot that Coloui
are most oblique to a second, or turther superticies ot
che chin d Air at erhich ther are reftected, and have
also che greatest variation ot obliquier, erhich makes
thac Colour Coonest emerse out oF the edges ot the
irhite. And a5 thebreadth ot every Rins is thus aus-
mented, the dark interrals must be diministred, until
the. neistibourins Rinss become continuous, and arc
blendedu the exterior tirst, and then thole nearer the
Center, (0 that ther can no longer be dictinsuistid
apare, buc seem to constitute an even and unitorm
Wrhicenels.
Amons all the Obserrations there is none accompa-
nied rith (0 odd circumstances a5 the 24th. OFthole
the principal are, that in thin plates, irhich to the
nated Eye seem ot an even and unitorm transparent
Wrhite-