Opticks: Or, A Treatise Of The Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours Of Light, fol. 135
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- 3d
- PROP. Z. PROB. V.
- By the discovered Properties of Lisht 10 explain ehe per-
- manent Colours of naturat Bodies.
- Phese Colours arise from hence, that lome natural
- Bodies resleet lome Ports oFrars, others other lortsmore
- copioustr thanthe rest. Minium refects th= least re-
- transible or red. makins rays most copiousy, and thence
- appears red. Violets refect the mostretrangible, most
- copioussy, and thence hare their Colour, and lo oF other
- Bodies. Lvery Bodr refects the rays oF its omn COlOur
- more copioussr thanthe rest, and trom their excels and
- predominance in the reflected Light has its C OlOUF.
- E Z P F R.. ZV. IL..
- For is the homoseneal Lights obtained by the Colu.
- tion of the Problem proxosed in the ath Propolition ot
- ehe Frst Book rou place Bodies oF sereral CotOurs, jou
- Will find, 25 I hare done, that everr Body lookS nost
- Eplendid and luminous in the Lighe of its omn COlour.
- Cinnaber in the homogeneal red Light is most resplen-
- dent, in the sreen Lisht it is manitestlr less resplen-
- dent, and in the blue Light AiII lel5. Indico in the
- violet blue Lighe is most resplendent, and its splendor
- is gradualls diministred as it is remored thence by de
- orces throuzh the green and vellon Lieht to the red.
- By a Leck thegreen Light, and next that the blue and
- vello Which compound oreen, are more Aronsly re-
- Aected
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