Micrographia - Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke
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the refraction of the _dissolvent_ be increas'd, and the refraction of the
tinging particles not altered, then will the preceding _spurious_ pulse be shortned or stopt, and not out-run the clear pulse so much; so that BB will become EE, and the _Blue_ be _diluted_, whereas the other _spurious_ pulse which follows will be made to lagg much more, and be further behind AA than before, and CC will become _ff_, and so the _Yellow_ or _Red_ will be heightned. A _Saline_ liquor therefore, mixt with another ting'd liquor, may alter the colour of it several ways, either by altering the refraction of the liquor in which the colour swims: or secondly by varying the refraction of the coloured particles, by uniting more intimately either with some particular _corpuscles_ of the tinging body, or with all of them, according as it has a _congruity_ to some more especially, or to all alike: or thirdly, by uniting and interweaving it self with some other body that is already joyn'd with the tinging particles, with which substance it may have a _congruity_, though it have very little with the particles themselves: or fourthly, it may alter the colour of a ting'd liquor by dis-joyning certain particles which were before united with the tinging particles, which though they were somewhat _congruous_ to these particles, have yet a greater _congruity_ with the newly _infus'd Saline menstruum_. It may likewise alter the colour by further dissolving the tinging substance into smaller and smaller _particles_, and so _diluting_ the colour; or by uniting several _particles_ together as in precipitations, and so deepning it, and some such other ways, which many experiments and comparisons of differing trials together, might easily inform one of. From these Principles applied, may be made out all the varieties of colours observable, either in liquors, or any other ting'd bodies, with great ease, and I hope intelligible enough, there being nothing in the _notion_ of |
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