Experiment II
We may add, Pyrophilus, on this Occaſion, that though a Darken’d Room be Generally thought requiſite to make the Colour of a Body appear by Reflection from another Body, that is not one of thoſe that are commonly agreed upon to be Specular (as Poliſh’d Metall, Quick ſilver, Glaſs, Water, &c.) Yet I have often obſerv’d that when I wore Doublets Lin’d with ſome ſilken Stuff that was very Gloſſy and Vividly Colour’d, eſpecially Red, I could in an Inlightned Room plainly enough Diſcern the Colour, upon the Pure White Linnen that came out at my Sleeve and reach’d to my Cufs; as if that Fine White Body were more Specular, than Colour’d and Unpoliſh’d Bodyes are thought Capable of being.