The rudiments of colours and of colouring : with the nature of pigments for the use of decorative artists, painters, etc. (1870)
Field, George, 1777?-1854, Mallet, Robert · London : Strahan · leaf 19
ger be in shadow. That is to say, the marginal beam s t b will have been bent at the surface of the water into the line m or refracted. The angle through which it is bent is always the same for the same medium. But it was the glorious discovery of Newton, that when a ray of colourless light is so… … Fig. 2. more or less by the prism, but also dispersed. That is to say, the beam becomes split up into others having different refractive angles, and on emerging from the prism the before colourless beam, if received directly into the eye, or upon a
Color in art · Painting
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