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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 87, page id 1677894601:0263
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Observations concernins the Reflexions and Colours of
thicte transparent polisted Plates.
PrETere is no Glass or Speculum ho well Poerer
polictred, but, besides the Light erhich it retracts
or rellects regularir, scatters every ray irresularty à
Faint Liphe, Dy means ot irtrich the polithed surtace,
wrhren illuminated in a dark Room by a beam ot the
Suns Lighe, may be casily seen in aIl positions oF the
tire. There are certain Phaenomena ot this scattered
Lighe, irhich erhen IArs obserred them, secmed very
Arange and surprisine to me. Uy Obserrations vere
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