Perspective, or, The art of drawing what one sees : explained and adapted to the use of those sketching from nature (1872)
Collins, W. H. (William Henry) · London : Longmans, Green · leaf 104
eir commanded dress, are the most distant clouds crimsonest? Clouds close to us may be blue, but far off golden — a strange result if air is blue. And again, if blue, why are the rays that come through large spaces of it red ? And that Alp, or anything else that catches far-away light, why coloured… … sun’s light and produce a rainbow of many colours. A globe of air would do the same, and this earth in its outer covering resembles such a globe of air. When the rays from the sun fall obliquely on that portion of this envelope of air which forms our sky, they are disintegrated in exactly the same
Perspective · Drawing
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