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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 113, page id 1677894601:0289
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Observations concernino the Inflexions of the rays of Lisht,
and the Colours made thereby.
IRimaldo has intormed us, that it a beam oF the
r SunS Light De let into a dark Room through a
very (malI Fole, the Madonrs oE chings in ehis LisHt
Will be larger than ther ousheto be it the raYS Went
on by the Bodies in Areioht Lines, and that these Ma-
dorrshave three parallel Fringes, bands or rankes oF co-
loured Lisht adjacent to them. But it the Hole be
enlarsed the trinses oro broad and run into one ano-
ther, lo that they cannot be distinguistred. Phele broad
hados and Trinses hrave been reckoned by Cometo pro-
ceed trom theordinary retraction of the Air, but rith.
out due examination ot the matter. Lor the cireum-
Carces oF the Phaenomenon, 10 tur 25 Lhare obserred
them, arc 25 FolIOWS.
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