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A new practical treatise on the three primitive colours, assumed as a perfect system of rudimental information ... With some practical rules for reflections; and Sir Isaac Newton's distribution of the colours in the rainbow (1826)

Hayter, Charles, 1761-1835 · London, J. Booth · leaf 33

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