Principles of the science of colour : concisely stated to aid and promote their useful application in the decorative arts (1872)
Benson, William, Chapman and Hall, publisher · London : Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly · leaf 26
ed with a blackone. For every pigment being more or less transparent, the kind of light whichtraverses both most freely is that which determines the resulting colour. Indigo, forinstance, absorbs the red rays, but allows some of the green, together with the blue, * A mixture of Emerald Green and… … 12 INTERMEDIATE COLOURS. to traverse a very small depth of its substance; Gamboge absorbs the blue, but ispermeable by the green and the red; little therefore beside the green rays cantraverse both of these pigments together, and be reflected by the white paper under-neath them to the eye, and the…
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