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.