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The life of Sir Isaac Newton / By David Brewster.

  • David Brewster
Date:
1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The life of Sir Isaac Newton / By David Brewster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    colour. Ifthe body, for example, absorbs red light, and transmits and reflects green, then if the quanti- ty of absorbed red light is diminished, it will enter into the reflected and transmitted pencils, and, form- ing white light by its mixture with a portion of the green rays, will actually dilute them in the same manner as if a portion of white light had been added.* * Since the two preceding chapters were written, I have had oceasion to confirm and extend the views which they con- tain by many new experiments.
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