Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) by Robert Boyle
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_That the Duration is not a sufficient Characteristick, exemplify'd by the
duration of Froth, and other Emphatical Colours, and the suddain fading of Flowers, and other Bodies of Real ones_ (80.) _That the position of the Eye is not necessary to the discerning Emphatical Colours, shew'd by the seeing white Froth, or an Iris cast on the Wall by a Prism, in what place of the Room soever the Eye be_ (81.) _which proceeds from the specular Reflection of the Wall_ (82.) _that Emphatical Colours may be Compounded, and that the present Discourse is not much concern'd, whether there be, or be not made a distinction between Real and Emphatical Colours_. (83.) Chap. 5. _Six Hypotheses about Colour recited_ (84, 85) _Why the Author cannot more fully Speak of any of these_ (86.) _nor Acquiesce in them_ (87, 88.) _What_ Pyrophilus _is to expect in this Treatise_ (88, 89.) _What Hypothesis of Light and Colour the Author most inclines too_ (90.) _Why he thinks neither that nor any other sufficient; and what his Difficulties are, that make him decline all Hypotheses, and to think it very difficult to stick to any._ (91, 92.) * * * * * Part the Second. _Of the Nature of Whiteness and Blackness,_ CHAP. I. _The reason why the Author chose the Explication of Whiteness and Blackness_ (93.) _Wherein_ Democritus _thought amiss of these_ (94.) Gassendus _his Opinion about them_ (95.) _What the Author approves, and a more full Explication of White, makinig it a Multiplicity of Light or |
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