A Course of Mechanical, Magnetical, Optical, Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Experiments / perform'd by Francis Hauksbee, and the Explanatory Lectures read by William Whiston, M.A.

by William Whiston; Francis Hauksbee

Fig. 7. Is the Magick Lanthorn, with its Pedestal T: its Lamp W; its double Convex Glass X Y; its Pictures inverted upon the Plate E F; and its large or gygantick Images at B A projected upon the white Wall, to the Surprize of the Spectators.

Fig. 8. Is the Demonstration of the Camera obscura, or dark Chamber; which will shew the Object as A B erect. Where C D is the double Convex Glass, ready to form an inverted Picture b a: Which by the Reflection of the plain Speculum E F, plac'd obliquely in an Angle of 4°, is formed in an erect Position at a b, for the View of the Spectator.

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An Explication of the Fifth Plate.

Figure 1. Is one of Sir Isaac Newton's Experiments, to shew the different Refrangibility of the Rays of Light, of the different Colours, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet. Where D E is a Parallelogram of Pastboard, having the one half D G blue, and the other half F E red; both strongly illuminated by the same Candle: and having black Silk wrapped several times round it. M N is a Lens or double Convex Glass interpos'd, which gathers upon white Paper the blue Rays sooner at h i than the Red at H I: As appears by the Distinctness of the Colours and of the Silk at those and only those Distances. Where also at somewhat above 12 Feet from the Colours to the Images, the Distance between h i and H I is no less than an Inch and half.

Fig. 2. Is another of Sir Isaac's Experiments to the same Purpose: Where X Y represents the Sun: E G, a Window, with a small round Hole at F: within which is a Triangular Glass Prism A B C, by which the Rays of the Sun are differently refracted upon a white Wall or Paper M N; and become an Oblong Image P T; the Violet seen at P as most refracted; and the Red at T, as least refracted: And the intermediate Colours seen in intermediate Places, according to the different Degrees of their Refraction.

Fig. 3. Is another of his Experiments, to shew that White is a Mixture of all Sorts of colour'd Rays; where D C is a Hole in the Window, which admits the Sun's Rays. E F G a Prism, casting its oblong colour'd Image upon a Lens, or double Convex Glass; which collects all those Rays into its Focus. In which Case, the Point of Concourse exhibits a perfect White Colour; tho' upon their Separation again, the oblong colour'd Image appears again, only in an inverted Position: as the crossing of the Rays in the Focus must of Necessity occasion.

Fig. 4. Is the last Experiment improv'd; by shewing that the White Light made by the Mixture of all the Colours is but imperfectly so, when any of the several Colours are intercepted in their Passage to their Focus, or Place of Mixture.