DEFIN. VII

_The Light whose Rays are all alike Refrangible, I call Simple,

Homogeneal and Similar; and that whose Rays are some more Refrangible

than others, I call Compound, Heterogeneal and Dissimilar._ The former

Light I call Homogeneal, not because I would affirm it so in all

respects, but because the Rays which agree in Refrangibility, agree at

least in all those their other Properties which I consider in the

following Discourse.

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