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increafe, the divergency of the coloured rays would

have been greatly diminithed, or intirely redified ;
and there would have been a very great refraCtion
without colour, as now I had a great difcolouring
without refraftion: but the inconveniency of f6
tarp an angle, as that of the veffel snuff have been,
to bring the light to an equal divergency with that
of the glafs rifm, whole angle was about 6o de-
grees, made tt neceffary to try Come experiments of
the fame kind, by (mallet angles.
I ground a wedge of common plate glare to a.n
angle of fotnewhat Ids than st degrees, which re-
fratted the mcan rays about I degrees. I then made
a wedge-like nail, as in the former expaiment,
and filling it with watcr, managed it fo, t6t it re-
fraffed equally with the Oafs wedge ; or, in other
words, the difference of their refrktions was no-
thing, and objeCts viewed thro them appeared nei-
ther railed nor depreffid. This was done with an
intent to obferve the fame thing over again in there
fmall angles, which I had ken in the paw: and it
appeared indeed the fame in proportion, or as near as
I could judge; for notwithfianding the refraftions
were hue alfo equal, yct the divergency of the co-
lours by the glafs was valily greater than that by the
water, ; for objeds totsaby tek
h two refratlions were
very much difcoloured.. Now this was a demon-
Itration, that the divergency of the light, by the
different refrangibility, was far from being equal in
theft two refrattions. I alfo irons the polition
of the coloun, that the excefi of divergency was in
the glafs ; So that I increaled the angle of the water-
wedge, by different trials, till the divergency of the
. You. so. 5B light

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