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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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tringes beins contiguous make one broad fringe compo.
Ted oF all the Colours in due order, the violet lvins
on the insde of the fringe next the Padon, the red on
the onthide Furthest From the Bhado, and the blue,
oreen and vellor, in the midale. And, in Like inan-
ner, the middlemost Fringes oF all the Cclours lying in
Order, and beins contisuons, make another broad tringe
compoled ot aIl the Colours; and the outmost Frinces
OF aII the COlours lyins in order, and beins contiouous,
make a third brond Frinse compoled oF all the C OlOUES.
These are the three fringes ot coloured Lioht wittr
ertrich the Chactorrs ot all Bodies are bordered in the sc-
cond Oblerration.
WVtien Imade the Foregoins Obserrations, l detioned
to repeat nost oF them rith imore care and exactnels,
and tomake lome ner ones for determinins the man-
ner ho the rars of Lightare bent in their pastage by
Bodies For makins the Fringes oF Colours with the
dark lines betreen them. Buc Lwas theu interrup-
tedque and cannot no think ot takcins chele chines into
further consideration. And since l hare not tinistred
ehis part of my Delien, I MaII conclude, with prOPO
tins only some Oueries in order to a turther learch to
De made Dy Others.
Duery 2. Do not Bodies aec upon Light at a distance,
and by their action bend its rays, and is not this action
(cateris paribus) Aronsest at the least distance
du. 2. Donot the rays vrhich differ in retransibilitr
difter also in Rexibilitr, and are ther not bytheie dit-
terent inflexions separated From one anothei, (0 25
atter separation to make the Colours in thethree Fringes
abore