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 40
he various prismatic hues. The generaleffect of this proceeding will he to diminish the action ofthe coloured light; the mixture will indeed present to theeye more light, but it will be paler ; the colour-element willbegin to be pushed into the background. Conversely, ifwe now should subject our… … Fig. 6.—Mode of mixing White Light with the Colours of the Spectrum. be equally apparent. Taking all this into consideration, itis evident that, when a particular colour is presented to us,we can affirm that it is perfectly pure ; viz., entirely freefrom white light, or that it contains mingled…
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