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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 112, page id 1677894601:0288
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second abont sire degrees and an halt. Next about the
Moon as a Circle of White, and next about chat the
inner Crownerhrich ras of a bluistr oreen within nexethe
irtrite, and of a vellor and red without, and next about
these Colours vere blue and oreen on the inside of the
outrard CPorrn, and red on the outhde ot it. AL thC
Tame time there appeared a Tlalo about 22 degrces 35
distant from the center of the MOOn. It Wras Flliptical,
and its lone Diameter as perpendicular to thefloriron
vergins belon Farthest From the Moon. Jam told that
the Moon has Lometimes threc or more concentrick
Crorrns ofColours incompalsine one another next about
her Body. The more equal the globules oF Water Or
Ice are to one another, the mOre CFOWNS OF COlOUIS
Will appear, and the Colours rill be the more livelr.
The Halo at the distance ot 223 degrees From the Moon
is oF another COTF. By its beins oval and remoter trom
the Moon belon than abore, l conclude, that it Was
made by retraction in Pome Port of Hlail or Snow Aoatins
in the Air in an horizontal Potture, the retracting Angle
beins about 58 or 60 desiees.
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