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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 111, page id 1677894601:0287
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globules oF Water or Hail, and that che globules are aII
OEthe Came bignels, and the Sun seen throuoh this Cloud
hall appear incompassed with the like concentrick Rings
OF ColOurs, and the Diameter ot the Arst Ring oF red
hallbe 7: degrees, that of the second 10: degrees, that
oFthe third 12 degrees 33 minutes. And accordingly
a5 the globules of Water are bigger or lels, the Rings
Mail be less or bigger. This is the Theory, and expe-
rience ansivers it. For in Fune 1692. l law by rellexion
in a Vessel oF stagnatins Water three HTalos CFOWNS OL
Rinos oF Colours about the Sun, like chree litele Rain-
bors, concentrick to his Body. The Colours of the
Ars or innermost C POwn ivere blue next the Sun, red
vichont and irhite in the middle betveen the blue
and red. Those ofthe second Cronn erere purple and
blue rithin, and pale red withont, and sicen in the
midale. And thole ot the third ivere pale blue with.
in, and pale red without; thele Cromns inclosed onc
another immediatelr, (o that their Colours procceded
in this continual order From the Sun ontrard: blue,
erhite, red; purple, blue, ereen, pale vello and red;
Pale blue, pale red. Phe Diameter ofthe lecond Cronn
measured trom the midale ofthe vellorr and red on one
Fide ot the Sun- to the middle et the lame ColOur on
the other side ras 9: degrees, or thereabouts. The Dia-
meters oF the krst and third I had not time to meature,
but that OF the Aes Seemed to De about AVC, OI SIX de-
orees, and thar of the third about trvelve. The like
Cxowns appear Cometimes about the Moon; tor in the
beginnine oF the rear 1664, Febr. Igth at nishe, l CaW
tuo luch Crowns abont per. The Diameter ot ehe Res
or innermolt ras about three degrees, and that ot the
second.