From what cause, therefore, do colours arise in Nature? It is
nothing but the disposition of bodies to reflect the rays of a
certain order and to absorb all the rest.
What, then, is this secret disposition? Sir Isaac Newton
demonstrates that it is nothing more than the density of the small
constituent particles of which a body is composed. And how is this
reflection performed? It was supposed to arise from the rebounding
of the rays, in the same manner as a ball on the surface of a solid
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Into the disc of light, leaped, fantastic, the witch figure
a certain spiritual affinity between the two; both were
For ten minutes or more he sat smoking and thinking, his
truth of his suspicions. “Perhaps you were looking for
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“I am awfully glad of an opportunity of a chat with you,
