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Discourse 8c

The Movement of Light as Rolling Balls

by Rene Descartes Icon
3 minutes  • 581 words

To better understand this, imagine that the ball 1234 is pushed from V to X in a straight line.

  • Its two sides 1 and 3 descend equally quickly to the surface of the prism YY.
  • 3 makes contact with the prism first. This delays its movement while 1 continues.

This makes the ball roll as 1432.

Colors as Rotation

It is surrounded by four others, Q, R, S, T during its descent.

  • Q and R have more force to move towards C than X has to move towards B
  • S and T have less force to move towards A than X has to move towards B
  • Q presses on X through part marked 1 while S holds back the part marked 3
    • This increases the rotation of X.

R and T do not harm it because:

  • R has already left for C.
  • T has not touched it yet.

This explains the action of the DF ray.

The opposite happens if:

  • Q and R tend more slowly towards C than X tends towards B.
  • S and T tend stronger towards A than X tends towards B.

In such a case:

  • R will prevent the rotation of part 1 of X
  • T will prevent that of the part 3
  • Q and S will not do anything about it.

This explains the action of the blue EH ray.

Colors

This ball 1234 is very round.

When it is pressed a little hard by the two R and T, it goes rotating in another direction instead of stopping its rotation.

Thus, in changing in a moment of situation, it turns afterwards following the order of the numbers 321 .

  • This is because R and T makes it start to turn away.
  • They force it to continue until it has completed a half turn in this direction
  • They can increase its rotation, instead of delaying it.

The nature of the colors which appear towards F consists only in what the fire-aether tends to spin, with more force than to move in a straight line.

  • Those which tend to turn much stronger, cause the red color.
  • Those which only tend a little stronger, cause the yellow.

On the contrary, those which are seen towards H these small fire-aether particles not spinning as quickly as they are used to.

  • Green appears where they do not turn much slower
  • Blue where they turn much slower

At the extremities of this blue there is mixed some incarnate which gives it liveliness and brilliance.

  • It changes it into violet or purple color.

This is also caused by the delay the rotation of the fire-aether particles which are then strong enough to change the position of some. This increases it in those there, while it decreases the rotation of the others.

For if it is true that the feeling we have of light is caused by the movement or the inclination to move of some matter that touches our eyes

The different movements of this matter causes different feelings in us.

The diversity of our feelings of the fire-aether is seen through colors.

There is nothing in the MNP prism that can produce colors, other than how it sends the small particles of the fire-aether towards the FGH paper, and from there towards our eyes.

White light and shadow or black, with the colors of the iris which have been explained here, suffice to compose all the others.

I do not agree when the Philosophers say that:

  • some colors are true
  • some are false or apparent.

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