the Compounded Colour upon a Sheet of White Paper.  And though by reason of the Thickness of the Glasses, the Effect was but Faint, even when the Sun was High and Shin’d forth clear, yet, we easily remedied that by Contracting the Beams we cast on them by means of a Convex Burning-glass, which where it made the Beams much converge Increas’d the Light enough to make the Compounded Colour very manifest upon the Paper.  By this means we observ’d, that the Beams trajected through Blew and Yellow compos’d a Green, that an intense and moderate Red did with Yellow make differing degrees of Saffron, and Orange Tawny Colours, that Green and Blew made a Colour partaking of both, such as that which some Latin Writers call Pavonaceus, that Red and Blew made a Purple, to which we might add other Colours, that we produc’d by the Combinations of Glasses differingly Ting’d, but that I want proper Words to express them in our Language, and had not when we made the Tryals, the Opportunity of consulting with a Painter, who perchance might have Suppli’d me with some of the terms I wanted.

I know not whether it will be requisite to subjoyn on this Occasion, what I tried concerning Reflections from Colour’d Glasses, and other Transparent Bodies, namely, that having expos’d four or five sorts of them to the Sun, and cast the Reflected Beams upon White Paper held near at hand, the Light appear’d not manifestly Ting’d, but as if it had been Reflected from the Impervious parts of a Colourless Glass, only that Reflected from the Yellow was here and there stain’d with the same Colour, as if those Beams were not all Reflected from the Superficial, but some from the Internal parts of the Glass; upon which Occasion you may take notice, that a Skilfull Tradesman, who makes such Colour’d Glass told me, that where as the Red Pigment was but Superficial, the Yellow penetrated to the very midst of the Plate.  But for further Satisfaction, not having the Opportunity to Foliate those Plates, and so turn them into Looking-glasses, we Foliated a Plate of Muscovy Glass, and then laying on it a little Transparent Varnish of a Gold Colour, we expos’d it to the Sun-beams, so as to cast them upon a Body fit to receive them, on which the Reflected Light, appearing, as we expected, Yellow, manifested that Rebounding from the Specular part of the Selenitis, it was Ting’d in its return with the Colour of the Transparent Varnish through which it pass’d.

EXPERIMENT XIV.

After what we have said of the Composition of Colours, it will now be seasonable to annex some Experiments that we made in favour of those Colours, that are taught in the Schools not to be Real, but only Apparent and Phantastical; For we found by Tryals, that these Colours might be Compounded, both with True and Stable Colours, and with one another, as well as unquestionably Genuine and Lasting Colours, and that the Colours resulting from such Compositions, would respectively deserve the same Denominations.