I call rubrific or red-making; those which make objects appear yellow, green, blue, and violet, I call yellowmaking, green-making, blue-making, violet-making, and so of the rest. And if at any time I speak of light and rays as coloured or endued with... Spectrum Analysis: Six Lectures, Delivered in 1868, Before the Society of ... - Page 33by Henry Enfield Roscoe - 1870 - 404 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Irwin Thompson - 1991 - 276 pages
...of light and color. Consider, for example, this famous passage from Newton's Opticks: The homogeneal Light and Rays which appear red, or rather make Objects appear so, I call Rubrifick or Red-making; those which make Objects appear yellow, green, blue, and violet, I call Yellow-making,... | |
| Evan Thompson - 1995 - 378 pages
...The homogeneal Light and Rays which appear red, or rather make Objects appear so, I call Rubrifick or Redmaking; those which make Objects appear yellow,...violet, I call Yellow-making, Green-making, Blue-making, Violet- making, and so of the rest. And if at any time I speak of Light and rays as coloured or endued... | |
| Werner Backhaus, Reinhold Kliegl, John Simon Werner - 1998 - 322 pages
...distinguished from the color sensations caused by the light. He wrote in his Opticks: "The homogeneal Light and Rays which appear red or rather make Objects appear so, I call Rubrifick or Red-making; those which make Objects appear yellow, green, blue, and violet, I call Yellow-making,... | |
| C. H. Vanderwolf - 2003 - 190 pages
...a prism is dissociated into a series of bands of different colors, wrote: "The homogeneal Light or Rays which appear red, or rather make Objects appear so, I call Rubrifick or Red-Making; those which make Objects appear yellow, green, blue, and violet, I call Yellow-making,... | |
| Fellow of the Quuen's College John Hyman, John Hyman - 2006 - 315 pages
...follows, although he is speaking about light, rather than the bodies that reflect it: "The homogeneal Light and Rays which appear red, or rather make Objects appear so, I call Rubrifick or Red-making; those which make objects appear yellow, green, blue and violet, I call Yellow-making,... | |
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