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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 106, page id 1677894601:0282
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106
retlexion rere not in the lame planes with their Angles
et incidence.
OBS. ZT.
ThC ColOuES OF the nem RingS tere in a COntrAEY
order to thole et the Former, and arole alter thio man-
ner. Therrhite round Spoc ot Lighe in the middle ot
the Rinos continued rrhite tothe center till the distance
ot the incident and reflected beams at the chart WaS
about 3 parts ot an Inch, and then IE bDETAN EO SPOW
dark in the midele. And when that distance wras about
17OF an Tuch, the Wrhite Spot ras become a Rins en
compastins a dark round Spot irhich in the middle IM.
clined to riolet and indico. And the luminous Rinos
incompassino it ivere srown equal to thole dark ones
ertrich in the four first Obserrations encompased them,
that is to Car, therhite Spot as srovn à White Rinc
equal to the tirst of thole dark Rings, and the ArA ot
those luminous Rings asnor grovin equal to the le
cond ot those dark ones, and the second ot those lumi-
nOuS OneS LO Fhe Fhird OF those dark ones, and (O OR.
For the Diameters oF the luminous Rings vere no lio,
163 233 320, VC. TMches.
Whenthe distance betrreen the incident and reftected
beams oF Light became a little Bigger, there emerged
out of the midale ot the dark Spot atter the indico a
blue, and then out ot that blue à pale green, and (OOn
aster a rellor and red. And irtien the Colour at the
center was brightest, beins betreen rellon and red,
thebright Rings vere sronn equal tothose Rings Wrhich
in the tour tirst Oblerrations next encompassed themm;
that