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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
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beins ipun very fine hare appeared coloured as lome
hare obserred, and that the coloured Abres of some (IIks
by rarrins the polition of the Fve do vary their C0
IOur. AIIO the Colours oF AIHS, Cloths, and other sub.
stances, irtrich Water or Oyl can intimately penetrate,
become more faint and oblcure by beins immersed in
thole liquors, and recorer their visor again by beins
dried, much alter the manner declared of thin Bodies
in the Toth and 2rth Obserrations. LCaF- sold Fome
Forts ot painted Clals, the infusion ot Fionum Nephri-
ticum, and some other substances refeet one COlOur,
and transmit another, libe thin Bodies in theoth and
2oth Obserrations. And Pome ot thole coloured pour-
ders Which Painters ule, mar hrave their Colours a litcle
chansed, by beins very elaborately and tinelr ground.
Where I sec not what can be justly pretended tor thole
chanses, besides the breakins of their parts into less
parts by that contrition atter the lame manner chatthe
COlour ot a thin Plate is chansed by varrins its thick.
nels. For rrhichrealon al(o it is that thecoloured Rowers
oF Plants and Vesitables by being bruised ulually be-
come more transparent than betore, or at least in lome
degree or other chanse their COlOurS. NVOr IS it much
lels to my purpole, thatby mixins dirers liguors very
Odd and remarquable productions and changes of C0-
lours may be effected, ot irhich no cause can bemore
obrious and rational than that the Caline corpuscles ot
one liquor do rariousy aet upon or unite rith the
tingins corpuscles ot anocher, (0 a5 to make them svell,
Or Chrink (wrhereby not ouly their bulk but their den-
licy also may be changed) or to divide them into
Emaller corpuseles, (Whereby a coloured liquor may be-
COmmO