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Modern chromatics, with applications to art and industry (1879)

Rood, Ogden N. (Ogden Nicholas), 1831-1902 · New York, D. Appleton and Company · leaf 169

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COMPLEMENTARY COLOURS. 163 serving. To observe the colours it is only necessary to lay one of the slips on the stage between the calc-spar prism and the Mcol’s prism, and then to turn the selenite till two brightly coloured squares are seen, as is indicated in Fig. 66. These two squares will always… … Fig. C6.— Complementary Colours as exhibited by the Schistoscope of Briicke. complementary. The object of preparing a large number of the slips of selenite is the production of a large series of complementary tints. The thinner slips furnish colours that are more saturated ; those which are thick…

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