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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 107, page id 1677894601:0283
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that is to Cay, the irhite Spot in the middle oFthose
Rings iras no become à irhite Rins equal to the Arst
OE those brisht Rings, and the tirst of those bright ones
vas no become equal to the second os thole, and lo
On. For the Diameters of the white Rings, and of thc
Other luminous Rines incompaltins it, Were no Tis,
20, 212, 38, 1c. Or thereabouts.
When thedistance of the trro beams ot Light at the
Chart as à little more increaled, there emerged out
oE the midele in order after the red, a purple, a blue,
asreen, a vellorr, and a red inclinins much to purple,
and ertien the Colour ras hrishtest being betrreen vel-
lorr and red, the Former indico, blue, oreen, vellou and
redq rese become an lris or Rins ot Colours equal
tothe tirst oF thole luminous Rines wrhich appeared in
the Four Arst Obserrations, and the white Rins erhrich
ras non become the second ot the luminous RingS WraS
srown equal to the second ot those, and the ArA ot
those wrhich was non become the third Rins ras be-
come the third ot those, and (0 on. For their Diame
Ters Were 1i6, 25, 212, 38 Tnches, the distance of the
crvo beams ot Light, and the Diameter ot the wrhite
Rins beins 23 luches.
When thele trro beams became more distant there
emersed out oF the midele oF the purplistr red, tirst a
darker round Spot, and then out ot the midale of that
Spot a brishter. And nor theformer Colours (purple,
blue, Ercen, vello, and purplit red) rere become 2
Rins equal to the tirst of the briehe Rings mentioned in
che Four tirst Obserrations, and the Rins about thIS
Ring ivere sronn equal to the Rinos about that re-
rectively; che distance betreen the trro beams ol
L. 18t