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" For the rays, to speak properly, are not coloured. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that colour. For as sound in a bell or musical string, or other sounding body, is nothing but a trembling... "
Spectrum Analysis: Six Lectures, Delivered in 1868, Before the Society of ... - Page 41
by Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1873 - 484 pages
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A History of Philosophy, Volume 5

Frederick Copleston - 1999 - 452 pages
...in this world of the scientist there are only primary qualities. In things, colours, for instance, are 'nothing but a disposition to reflect this or that sort of rays more copiously than the rest, (while) in the rays they are nothing but their dispositions to propagate this or that motion into the...
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Visual Color and Color Mixture: The Fundamental Color Space

Jozef Cohen - 2001 - 256 pages
...is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that Colour Colours in the Object are nothing but a disposition...copiously than the rest; in the rays they are nothing but a disposition to propagate this or that Motion into the Sensorium, and in the Sensorium they are Sensations...
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Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See

Donald D Hoffman - 2000 - 324 pages
...subtleties of the way you construct color. Similarly, Newton and many of his successors thought that "Colours in the Object are nothing but a Disposition...or that sort of Rays more copiously than the rest." Their idea is simple. Light is composed of different rays, which we now describe as having different...
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British Philosophy: Hobbes to Hume

Frederick Copleston - 2003 - 452 pages
...in this world of the scientist there are only primary qualities. In things, colours, for instance, are 'nothing but a disposition to reflect this or that sort of rays more copiously than the rest, (while) in the rays they are nothing but their dispositions to propagate this or that motion into the...
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Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color

Philip Ball - 2003 - 426 pages
...the technology of paints as a whole — including the binder. WHEELS OF LIGHT "In the Rays [Colours] are nothing but their Dispositions to propagate this or that Motion into the Sensorium, and in the Sensorium they are Sensations of those Motions under the Forms of Colours."6 We can perhaps forgive...
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Physical Techniques in the Study of Art, Archaeology and Cultural ..., Volume 2

2007 - 282 pages
...251 4.2.5. Limitations 254 4.3. Conclusion 254 Acknowledgements 255 References 255 1. INTRODUCTION "Colours in the object are nothing but a disposition...or that sort of rays more copiously than the rest (Rosen et al., 2000)" Newton's Optiks, 1704 Reflectance spectroscopy has already been applied successfully...
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the second course of light

Arthur Edward Ellard McKenzie - 1965 - 386 pages
...Green-blue ink on yellow ink. sort of Rays, there would be but one colour in the whole world', and also 'Colours in the Object are nothing but a Disposition...or that sort of Rays more copiously than the rest'. Fig. 189 represents the percentage of the incident white light reflected from (a) yellow ink, (b) blue...
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