The theory of color in its relation to art and art-industry (1876)
Bezold, Wilhelm von, Pickering, Edward C. (Edward Charles), 1846-1919 · Boston : L.Prang · leaf 55
THE THEORY OF COLOR. 9 screen, they will produce upon it a brilliantly colored image, known as a spectrum. We shall immediately recognize in this image the colors of the rainbow, but of a brilliancy and a clearness far greater than we are accustomed to see in the phenomenon just named. Nearest to… … the white ray would have fallen, if the prism had not been present, the spectrum is red ; this is followed in order by the colors orange, yellow, yellowish green, green, bluish green, turquoise-blue (generally called cyanogen-blue, which is the name givBu in physics to a blue somewhat tinged with…
Color · Decoration and ornament · Painting
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