EXPERIMENT III.
Whilst we were making the newly men∣tion'd Experiments, we thought fit to try also what Composition of Colours might be made by Altering the Light in its Pas∣sage to the Eye by the Interposition not of Perfectly Diaphanous Bodies, (that having been already try'd by others as well as by us (as we shall soon have occasion to take notice) but of Semi-opacous Bodyes, and those such as look'd upon in an ordinary Light, and not held betwixt it and the Eye, are not wont to be Discriminated from the rest of Opacous Bodyes; of this Tryal, our mention'd Adversaria present us the fol∣lowing Account.
Holding these Sheets, sometimes one sometimes the other of them, before the Hole betwixt the Sun and the Eye, with