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So he could associate every color with a distance.
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How could he know the distance?
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Because he could measure the diameter of the rings.
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And he said this: "Observation Six:
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The Diameter of the fixth Ring"
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"at the most lucid part of its Orbit was
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58/100ths of an inch,
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and the Diameter of the sphere
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on which the double convex Object-glass was ground was about 102 Feet;
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hence I gathered the thickness of the Air
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or Aereal Interval of the Glasses in that Ring."
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So in other words, here's the air gap he's trying to measure,