Proportion and harmony of line and color in painting, sculpture, and architecture; an essay in comparative aesthetics (1909)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 351
therwise darkened room. See 309 310 PROPORTIOX AND I/ARMOJVY. Fig, 124. When they enter this room they are made topass through a glass prism the edges of which are placedas in this figure. The prism turns the band of raysaside from its direction, and, at the same time, separatesit into an… … FIG. 124.—BREAKING UP A RAY OF WHITE LIGHT.See page 310. and all together a series of colors in which we recognize allthat are in the rainbow. Nearest where the white wouldhave fallen, if the prism had not intervened, we find red,and next to this the other colors in this order : orange,yellow,…
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