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 1   I,  5 |       will also create colours by reflection when the mirror is such
 2   I,  6 |           if their tail is due to reflection, as Aeschylus and Hippocrates
 3   I,  6 |        they themselves admit that reflection over so great a space is
 4   I,  7 |      colour of the halo is due to reflection, whereas in the case of
 5   I,  7 |         that a comet is a sort of reflection, not indeed, as Hippocrates
 6   I,  8 |        way. Some say that it is a reflection of our sight to the sun,
 7   I,  8 |         near it. But if it were a reflection and not a genuine affection
 8   I,  8 |        imperceptible stars, nor a reflection. And those are the chief
 9   I,  8 |          we explain the halo as a reflection from it when the air is
10   I,  12|       which is colder because the reflection of the sun’s rays from the
11  II,  9 |        ignorance of the theory of reflection, which is the real cause
12  II,  9 |   maintaining that lightning is a reflection, the others that lightning
13 III,  2 |          and the way in which the reflection to the sun or some other
14 III,  2 |   sometimes appears bright in the reflection, but it sometimes, either
15 III,  3 |        conditions under which the reflection takes place. The reflection
16 III,  3 |       reflection takes place. The reflection is from the mist that forms
17 III,  3 |       like the rainbow.~Since the reflection takes place in the same
18 III,  4 |      stated that the rainbow is a reflection: we have now to explain
19 III,  4 |           to explain what sort of reflection it is, to describe its various
20 III,  4 |           though it often gives a reflection even uncondensed when the
21 III,  4 |  reflected to the object then the reflection must render the colour of
22 III,  4 |          made up of them all, the reflection necessarily gives us a continuous
23 III,  4 |           be an appearance due to reflection whenever the sun and the
24 III,  4 |       clear that the rainbow is a reflection of sight to the sun.~So
25 III,  4 |       variety of its colours. The reflection in the one case is from
26 III,  4 |        That is why in the rainbow reflection the outer circumference
27 III,  4 |         circumference is red (the reflection being from small particles
28 III,  4 |       purple rather than red. The reflection is from very small particles
29 III,  4 |     smaller and smoother, why the reflection of clouds in water is darker
30 III,  4 |          is clearly the case: the reflection diminishes the sight that
31 III,  4 |           holds good here. So the reflection from the outer rainbow is
32 III,  4 |          is reversed because more reflection reaches the sun from the
33 III,  4 |     smaller, inner band. For that reflection is nearer to our sight which
34 III,  4 |        fainter, so that the third reflection can have no strength whatever
35 III,  5 | circumference of a circle. If the reflection takes place when the luminous
36 III,  5 |         greater than MK since the reflection of the cone is over the
37 III,  5 |        from H and K make by their reflection. If not, it can be shown,
38 III,  6 |         mock sun is caused by the reflection of sight to the sun. Rods
39 III,  6 |           of the mirror gives the reflection in it a single colour, while
40 III,  6 |          just as it does when the reflection is from the dense, smooth
41 III,  6 |          but if it is far off the reflection cannot take place, since
42 III,  6 |         sight is too weak for the reflection to take place, and so it
43 III,  6 |        reaches the mirror and the reflection from it is altogether feeble.~