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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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IITO
mena are t0o various, and the Calculations Whereby
ther follor From thole Provolitions too intricate t0 bC
here prolecuted. Icontent my selF rith havins prose-
cutedthis kind of Phaenomena 10 Far asto discovei their
cause, and by discorerins it to ratits the Propolitions
in the chird Part of this BoOk.
OBS. ZTTI.
A5 T ioHE retlected by a Lens quick-Cilvered on the
back-Fide makes the Rinos oF COlOurS above de
Ecribed, (0 it ought to make the like Rinos oF Colours
in pallins throust a drop oF Water. AC the sIrA LC
Rexion of the rars within the drop, Lome Colouis ouxtt
to be transmitted, 25 in the case ot a LenS, and Others
to be refected Back to the Fve. For instance, it the
Diameter oF d Cnalldcop or slobule ot WVater De about
the footh part oF an Tuch, (0 that a red makins cay in
passins through the midale ot this globule haS 290 fts
oFealy transmission ithin the globule, and that aIl the
red-makcins rars irhich are at a certain distance From
this midele rar round about it have 249 fits richin the
globule, and ail the like rays at a certain turther di-
Rtance round about it have 248 AEs, and aIl thole at a
certain Further distance 24. 7 Ats, and (0 on: Thele Con-
centrick Circles ot rars atter their transmistion, fallins
on a irhite Paper, rill make concentrick rinos of red
upen the Paper, supposins the Lighe irtrich pasles
throueh one linsle globule Arons enouph to be sensible.
And, in like manner, the rars ot othier Colours rill
make Rines oF other Colours. Suppole non that in a
Edir dar the Sun hines throuoh a ehin Cloud ot luch
slobules