Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibility; and are they not by their different inflexions separated from one another, so as after separation to make the Colours in the three Fringes...? And after what manner are they inflected to make those Fringes? (Isaac Newton)

Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibility; and are they not by their different inflexions separated from one another, so as after separation to make the Colours in the three Fringes...? And after what manner are they inflected to make those Fringes?

Isaac Newton

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