The house painter, or, Decorator's companion : being a complete treatise on the origin of colour, the laws of harmonious colouring, the manufacture of pigments, oils, and varnishes : and the art of house painting, graining, and marbling : to which is added, a history of the art in all ages (1841)
Higgins, William Mullingar · London : Thomas Kelly ... · leaf 15
reader for the understanding of the questions to which his attention willbe presently directed. Newton having succeeded in the decomposition of white light, next attemptedits composition^ il,e union of the several coloured rays. This raa7effected in various ways, but it will be sufficient to… … 9 the former one in an opposite position, so that the two may make a transparentmedium of a rectangular shape, the opposite surfaces being parallel as shown inthe diagram. The white light which is decomposed by one prism, P, will nowbe re-composed by the other, and a spot of white light, W, will be…
Graining · House painting · Marbling · Painting, Industrial
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