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The theory of color in its relation to art and art-industry (1876)

Bezold, Wilhelm von, Koehler, S. R. (Sylvester Rosa), 1837-1900, Pickering, Edward C. (Edward Charles), 1846-1919 · Boston, L. Prang and Company · leaf 52

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e separates it into an infinitely large number of coloredbands of rays, which, after leaving the prism, are again prop-agated in a straight line. If these bands fall upon a white THE THEORY OF COLOR. 9 screen, they will produce upon it a brilliantly colored image,known as a spectrum. We shall… … the white ray would have fallen, if the prism had not beenpresent, the spectrum is red; this is followed in order by thecolors orange, yellow, yellowish green, green, bluish green,turquoise-blue (generally called cyanogen-blue, which is thename given in physics to a blue somewhat tinged with…

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