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Colour (1870)

Church, A. H. (Arthur Herbert), 1834-1915 · London : Cassell, Petter, and Galpin · leaf 37

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us produced. The results obtained by Helmholtz and Maxwell, by means of experiments con¬ ducted by the method of overlapping spectra will be de¬ scribed below. A third method of combining colours is by means of a revolving disc such as that represented in Fig. 7. The disc may be painted with the… … various proportions, he obtained nearly perfect represen¬ tations of the mixed colours. Many combinations of three of them yielded white light. A great range of mixed colours may be obtained by variously combining red, green, and violet, the coloured elements originally selected

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