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Title: Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664)

Author: Robert Boyle

Release Date: December 28, 2004 [EBook #14504]

Language: English

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EXPERIMENTS
AND
CONSIDERATIONS
Touching
COLOURS.

First occasionally Written, among some other
_Essays_, to a Friend; and now suffer'd to
come abroad as

THE
BEGINNING
Of An
Experimental History
OF
COLOURS.

By the Honourable ROBERT BOYLE,
Fellow of the ROYAL SOCIETY.

_Non fingendum, aut excogitandum, sed inveniendum,
quid Natura faciat, aut ferat._ Bacon.

_LONDON._

Printed for _Henry Herringman_ at the
_Anchor_ on the Lower walk of the _New
Exchange._ MDCLXIV.

* * * * *

THE
PREFACE.

Having in convenient places of the following Treatise, mention'd the
Motives, that induc'd me to write it, and the Scope I propos'd to my self
in it; I think it superfluous to entertain the Reader now, with what he
will meet with hereafter. And I should judge it needless, to trouble
others, or my self, with any thing of Preface: were it not that I can
scarce doubt, but this Book will fall into the hands of some Readers, who
being unacquainted with the difficulty of attempts of this nature, will
think itn strange that I should publish any thing about Colours, without a
particular Theory of them. But I dare expect that Intelligent and Equitable
Readers will consider on my behalf: That the professed Design of this
Treatise is to deliver things rather _Historical_ than _Dogmatical_, and
consequently if I have added divers new _speculati