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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 108, page id 1677894601:0284
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C108)
TigHt and che Diameter oF the irhite Rins (Wrtick
ras no become the third Rins) beins about z In-
CheS.
The Colours of the Rings in the middle Be~an nOu
to oro very dilute, and it the distance betreen thc
erro beams vas increaled halt an Tuch, or an Inch inOre,
ther vanisted erhilst the erhite Rins, rith onc or tvo
oF the Rings next it on cither side, continued sill vi-
Sible. But il the distance of the tro beams oF Lioht
aras siIl more increased these also ranistred: For the
Lioht Which comins From Ceveral parts ot the TTole in
the Windo Fell upon the Speculum in sereral Angles oF
incidence nade Rings oF sereral bignesses, irhich diluted
and blotted out one another, a5 l knew by interceptino
Pome part of that Lioht. For it l intercepted that part
erhich ras nearest to the AXis ot the Speculum the
Rings rould bc lels, it the other part erhich as re
motest From it ther rould be bisger.
OB5. XII.
When the C Olours oF the Prisin vere cast successirely
on theSpeculum, thac Rins irhich in the trro lastOB.
Terrations was white, as ot the tame bionels in aIl the
COlours. Dut the Rinos without it ivere oreater in the
oreen than in the blue, and Aill srcater in the vellon,
and sreatest in the red. And, on the contrarr, the
Rings wichin that irtite Circle ivere less in the orcen
than in the blue, and siil lels in the vellorr, and least
in the red. For the Aneles oF resexion OF those raYS
irtrich made this Rins Deins equal to their Angles ot
incidence, the ftsol every retlected ras within the Cila(s
after