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# Title: Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 193)
# Folio 136, page id 1677894601:0312
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Du: T3. Donet several lort oF. rays make vibrations
oE sereral bignesses, trhich accordins to their bignestes
excite senlations ot several Colours, much atter the
manner that the ribrations ofthe Air, accordins to their
sereral bieneses excite sensations ot several Counds:
And particularly do not the most retrangible rays Cx
cire the Mortest vibrations For makins a senlation ot
decp violet, the least refransible the larsest for makine
a lentation of decp red, and the sereral intermediate
Torts ofrars, vibrations of several intermediate bigner-
ses to make senlations of the sereral intermediate C0-
lOUrS.
Du. 14. Iar noc the harmons and dilcord ot C0-
lours arise trom the proportions ot the ribrations propa-
sated through the sbres. oF the optick Nerres into the
Brain, a5 the harmonr and discord ot Pounds ariles trom
the proportions of the vibrations ot the Air? For lome
Colours areasrecable, as those of Crold and Indico, and
Others dilasree.
u. I5. ArenottheSpecies oF Objeets seen rrith both
tiyes united irhere the optick Nerres meet Fetore
they come into theBrain, the tibres on the rishie side
otboth Nerres unitins there, and alter uniOn gOIne
thence into the Brain in the Nerre wrhich is on the
righe side oFthe Flead, and the tibres on the lett side
ot both Perres unitins in the lame place, and atter
union soins into theBrain in the Nerre Which is on
the lete side oF the Head, and these trro Nerres meet-
ino in the Bram in such a manner that their tibres
male but onc entire Species or licture, halt ot irtict
on the. rishe side ot the Senlorium comes From the
right side oF boch Eyes throush che righe side ot
Doth