Students' text-book of color, or, Modern chromatics : with applications to art and industry (1881)
Rood, Ogden N. (Ogden Nicholas), 1831-1902 · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 27
isevident without much argument. Now, white light consists of a mixture of waves pos-sessing every desirable degree of length, and it is only ne-cessary to select some instrument which is able to sort outfor us the different kinds of light, and neatly arrange themside by side in an orderly series.… … Fig. 1.—Prismatic Spectrum. repeat the famous experiment made by Newton many yearsago : viz., admit a small beam of sunlight into a darkenedroom, and allow it to fall on the prism, as indicated in Fig.1. We shall notice, by observing the illuminated path ofthe sunbeam, that the prism bends it…
Color · Painting · Color in art
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