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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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OF that P ighE in Wrhich ther were held. Inthe Full red
Tieht thes irere totally red rithout any sensible bluc
or violet, and in the deep blue Lieht they ivere totally
blue ithout any sensible red or vellor; and lo in the
oreen Light ther vere totally sreen, exceptins a little
Vello and. bluc, which iere mixed in the green Light
ofthe Prilm. And comparino the fringes made in the
Lereral coloured Lights, I Found that thole made in the
red Light irere larsest, those made in the riolet vere
least, and etiose made in the oreen vere ot a midale
bionels. For the Frinses with wrhich the Madtorv OE a
Mans Hair rere bordered, beins measured crols the
Chadou at the distance oF six Tnches From theHtair; the
distance betreen the midale and most luminous part ot
the First Or innermost frinse on one side ot the Mado,
aud that of the likre fringe on the other side ot the Ma-
dorr, ras in the FuIl red Lishe;: oF an Tncl, and in
the FuII violet . And the like distance betireen the
midele and inost luminous parts of the second fringes on
either side theador rras in the FuII red Lieht :, and
in the violet= ot an Inch. And these distances ot the
Fringes held the lame proportion at aI distances Fror
the Llair writhout ans lentible variation.
So then the cars wtrich made chele tringes in the red
Liont passed by thetlair at a greater distance chan thole
did which made the like fringes in tho violet; and there-
Fore the FTair in caulins these fringes acted alike upon
the red Lighe or least retrangible rays at a greater di
stance, and upon the violet or most retransible rays at
a lels distance, and by those actions dispoled the rec.
Lighe into larger tringes, and the violet into smaller.
and the Lishus oE intermediate Colours into tringes ot
intei-