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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 116, page id 1677894601:0292
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C116
the Paper Fromthe Flaii, When the Paper is nearer the
Flair chan when it is at a great distance trom it.
OBS. TI.
The Chadorre ot aIl Bodies (Metals, Stones, Gla(E,
Nood, HIorn, Ice, 1c.) in this Light ivere bordered
ith chree parallet Fringes or bands ot coloured Light,
erhereot that wrtrich ras contiouous to the thado Was
broadest and most luminous, and that ertrich was re-
motest From it was narrorest, and lotaint, a5 not calily
to be visible. It was difficult to distinguist the C olours
unless irhen the Light Fellvery obliguelr upon a (mooth
Paper, Or Come other linooth rrhite Body, 10a5to make
ehem appear much broader than ther vrould otherrile
do. And then the Colours ivere plainly ritible in this
order: The Arst or innermost Frinse rvas violet and decp
blue next the padorr, and then light blue, oreen and
vellorr in the midale, and red rrithout. The second
tringe rras alinost contiquous to the Arst, and the thiid
tothe second, and both rrere blue vrithin and vellovo
aud red vrithout, but their Colouis rrere very taint
especiallr those oF the third. The Colours theretore
procceded in this order From the Madorr, violet, indico
pale blue, sieen, vellorr, red; blue, vellorr, red; pale
blue, pale vellour and red. The thadorrs made by
Fcratches and bubbles in polistred plates ot Class rrere
Bordered rrith the like trinses ot coloured Lioht. And
ifplates ofLookins. glals 0op d offnear the edges vrith
a Diamond cut, be held in thelame beam ot Light, thc
Cisht irtich passes throuch the parallel planes ot the
Cilals will be De bordered rith the like tringes ot Co-
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