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1. On the Colours of Natural Bodies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

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The only Theory of the Colours of Natural Bodies that has met with reception in modern times, is that of Sir Isaac Newton, who considers them as identical with those of thin plates, and as varying with the size of the ultimate particles of the body.

Although this theory, ingenious as it is, be liable to many great objections, and be not capable of explaining the phenomena, even if its postulates be admitted; yet the author of the present paper does not assail it with any arguments of this kind. He has, on the contrary, attacked it in its stronghold, and has endeavoured to bring it to the test of direct experiment.

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Proceedings 1832–33
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1844

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