Opticks : $b or, A treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections and colours of lightNewton, Isaac
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Opticks : $b or, A treatise of the reflections, refractions, inflections and colours of light
Newton, Isaac
Optics -- Early works to 1800
So then in Plates of Glass which are alike concave on one side, and
alike convex on the other side, and alike quick-silver'd on the convex
sides, and differ in nothing but their thickness, the Diameters of the
Rings are reciprocally in a subduplicate Proportion of the thicknesses
of the Plates. And this shews sufficiently that the Rings depend on both
the Surfaces of the Glass. They depend on the convex Surface, because
they are more luminous when that Surface is quick-silver'd over than
when it is without Quick-silver. They depend also upon the concave
Surface, because without that Surface a Speculum makes them not. They
depend on both Surfaces, and on the distances between them, because
their bigness is varied by varying only that distance. And this
dependence is of the same kind with that which the Colours of thin
Plates have on the distance of the Surfaces of those Plates, because the
bigness of the Rings, and their Proportion to one another, and the
variation of their bigness arising from the variation of the thickness
of the Glass, and the Orders of their Colours, is such as ought to
result from the Propositions in the end of the third Part of this Book,
derived from the Phaenomena of the Colours of thin Plates set down in the
first Part.
There are yet other Phaenomena of these Rings of Colours, but such as
follow from the same Propositions, and therefore confirm both the Truth
of those Propositions, and the Analogy between these Rings and the Rings
of Colours made by very thin Plates. I shall subjoin some of them.
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