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 37
eir length may be ; it needs the jointaction of the red and violet, waves, or the red and blue. Allother possible tints and hues find their type in some portionof the spectrum, and, as will be shown in the next chapter,this applies just as well to the whole range of browns andgreys, as to colours… … Fig. 5.—Kecomposition of White Light. sensation that we call red, and, as we allow shorter andshorter waves to act on the eye, we experience the sensa-tions known as orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.When, on the other hand, we combine or mix together thesedifferent kinds of light, we…
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