The Second Book of Opticks
Part III Of the Permanent Colours of Natural Bodies, and the Analogy Between Them and the Colours of Thin Transparent Plates
I am now come to another part of this Design, which is to consider how the Phænomena of thin transparent Plates stand related to those of all other natural Bodies. Of these Bodies I have already told you that they appear of divers Colours, accordingly as they are disposed to reflect most copiously the Rays originally endued with those Colours. But their Constitutions, whereby they reflect some Rays more copiously than others, remain to be discover’d; and these I shall endeavour to manifest in the following Propositions.