Modern chromatics, with applications to art and industry (1879)
Rood, Ogden N. (Ogden Nicholas), 1831-1902 · New York, D. Appleton and Company · leaf 24
t without much argument. Kow, white light consists of a mixture of waves pos- sessing every desirable degree of length, and it is only ne- cessary to select some instrument which is able, to sort out for us the different kinds of light, and neatly arrange them side by side in an orderly series.… … Fig. 1.— Prismatic Spectrum. repeat the famous experiment made by Newton many years ago : viz., admit a small beam of sunlight into a darkened room, and allow it to fall on the prism, as indicated in Fig. 1. We shall notice, by observing the illuminated path of the sunbeam, that the prism bends it*…
Color · Painting · Color in art
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