The science of beauty, as developed in nature and applied in art (1856)
Hay, D. R. (David Ramsay), 1798-1866 · Edinburgh London, W. Blackwood and sons · leaf 111
n the modifications of theatmospheric action of sound, in producing through the ear alike effect. I shall therefore endeavour to illustrate thescience of beauty as evolved in colours, by forming scales oftheir various modifications agreeably to the same Pythagoreansystem of numerical ratio from… … TONEDGREY It will be observed, that with a view to avoid complexity 75 as much as possible, I have, in the arrangement of the aboveseries of scales, not only confined myself to the merely ele-mentary parts of the Pythagorean system, but have left outthe harmonic modifications upon (^T) and (XV)>…
