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Experiments and considerations touching colours. First occasionally written among some other essays, to a friend ; and now suffer'd to come abroad as the beginning of an experimental history of colours / By the Honourable Robert Boyle.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.Date: 1664- Books
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An experimental inquiry into the cause of the changes of colours in opake and coloured bodies. With AN Historical Preface Relative to the Parts of Philosophy therein examined, and to the several Arts and Manufactures dependent on them. By Edward Hussey Delaval, F. R. S.
Delaval, Edward Hussey, 1729-1814.Date: M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]- Archives and manuscripts
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Composite manuscript of medical works in Italian and Latin (Miscellanea Medica I)
Date: Early 14th century - Late 17th CenturyReference: MS.531- Books
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An experimental inquiry into the cause of the permanent colours of opake bodies. By Edward Hussey Delaval, F. R. S. Of the Royal Societies of Upsal, and Gottingen, of the Institute of Bologna, and of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester.
Delaval, Edward Hussey, 1729-1814.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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A treatise explanatory of the nature and properties of pollaplasiasmos; or, the original invention of multiplying pictures in oil colours, with all the Properties of the Original Paintings; whether in regard to Outline, Size, Varlety of Tints, &c. Together with a proposal for a subscription for forming a collection of pictures, truly original on different subjects. Interspersed With Occasional Remarks on the Utility of Painting-on the modern Improvements in that Art,-And on the Merits of the English School. Magna est Veritas, et prevalebit. By J Booth. A Specimen of this Art may be now inspected at the Inventor's House, No. 6, Upper James'-Street, North Corner of Golden-Square.
Booth, Joseph, -1789.Date: [1784]- Books
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A compendium of colors, and other materials used in the arts dependant on design, with remarks on their nature and uses: Including the method of drawing in chalk, crayons, &c. of painting in water colors, crayons, &c. of engraving in strokes, chalks, mezzotinto, aquatinta, &c. of modelling, and of sculpture, &c. &c.
Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756-1823.Date: 1797?]- Books
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An account of the presentation of colours to the Monmouth volunteers, or, townsmen of king Henry the Fifth, on Monday, August the nineteenth, 1799, By her grace the Dutchess of Beaufort. Including particulars connected with that day, as also the songs sung after dinner; and a list of the patriotic band assembled on the occasion.
Heath, Charles, 1761-1831.Date: [1799]- Books
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Tratado das cores que consta de tres partes analgtica, synthetica, hermeneutica: Offerecido Aos Amadores das Sciencias Naturaes, e a os Dilectantes, e Artistas, que começaõ a occupar-se em todo o genero de Trabalho Colorido: por Diogo de Carvalho e Sampayo, Cavalheiro DA Ordem DE Malta.
Sampaio, Diogo de Carvalho e, 1750-Date: [1787]- Books
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Conjecturæ philosophicæ de colorum in facie telluris vicissitudine annua, ubi maxime in viredinis æstivæ & hyemalis albedinis naturam & usam inquiritur. Autore Carolo Henrico Rappolt, Borusso.
Rappolt, Karl Heinrich, 1702-1753.Date: MDCCXXX. [1730]- Books
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The painter's companion; or a treatise on colours. Shewing how to make the several sorts from their proper ingredients; together with the best method of colouring maps, prints, views, &c. The whole being practical improvements on the experiments of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; Very useful for Gentlemen and Ladies that amuse themselves with painting in Water Colours, as well as Designers, Limners, &c.
Hoofnail, John.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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A series of experiments relating to phosphori and the prismatic colours they are found to exhibit in the dark / by B. Wilson ... ; Together with a translation of two memoirs, from the Bologna Acts [1744 & 1747], upon the same subject, by J.B. Beccari.
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788.Date: 1775- Books
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Experiments and observations on light and colours: To which is prefixed, the analogy between heat and motion.
Eliot, John, Sir, 1736-1786.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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A series of experiments relating to phosphori and the prismatic colours they are found to exhibit in the dark. By B. Wilson, F.R.S. and Member of the Royal Academy at Upsal. Together with a translation of two memoirs, from the Bologna acts, upon the same subject, By J.B. Beccari, Professor of Philosophy at Bologna.
Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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An address to the public, on the polygraphic art, or the copying or multiplying pictures, in oil colours, by a chymical and mechanical process, the invention of Mr. Joseph Booth, Portrait Painter.
Booth, Joseph, -1789.Date: [1787?]- Books
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An essay on the mechanic of oil colours, considered under these heads, Oils, Varnishes, and Pigments, with respect to their Durability, Transparency, and Force, In which is communicated some valuable Secrets, particularly, A Method of preparing the Oils, So as to give them a strong drying Quality, perfectly limpid and colourless; A finishing Oil Varnish, And other useful Vehicles for every Branch of the noble and liberal Art of Painting, pointing out The valuable and pernicious Qualities of certain Colours, with a Recommendation of such as are known by long Experience to stand well. By an Artist, Who has been Thirty Years in incessant Observation and Practice.
Williams, William, of Bath.Date: 1787- Books
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Theory of colours and vision. / By G. Palmer.
Palmer, G. (Physicist)Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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A seasonable check to the fury of an unfledg'd minister of the Gospel. In a letter to the Reverend Mr. T- - - - - - - A very young Glóstershire Clergyman. Written by Mr. J- - - - - - - - A very young Wiltshire Layman. Occasion'd by the former's falsly charging the latter with Atheism. In which are interspers'd some Observations on Atheism and Superstition, together with a Hint or two to the Professors of Christianity in general.
J- - - - - - - -, Mr.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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The lady's philosophy: or Sir Isaac Newton's theory of light and colours, and his principle of attraction, made familiar to the ladies in several entertainments. A new edition. Translated from the original Italian of Signor Algarotti.
Algarotti, Francesco, 1712-1764.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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The curious distillatory, or, The art of distilling coloured liquors, spirits, oyls, &c. from vegitables, animals, minerals and metals ... : containing many experiments ... relating to the production of colours, consistence and heat ... : together with several experiments upon the blood (and its serum) of diseased persons, with divers other collateral experiments / written originally in Latin by Jo. Sigis. Elsholt ; put into English by T.S.
Elsholtz, Johann Sigismund, 1623-1688Date: 1677- Books
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Histoire de la peinture ancienne, extraite de l'hist. naturelle de Pline, liv. XXXV. Avec le texte Latin, corrigé sur les Mss. de Vossius & sur la I. ed. de Venise, & éclairci par des remarques nouvelles.
Pliny, the Elder.Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]- Books
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Histoire de la peinture ancienne, extraite de l'hist. naturelle de Pline, liv. XXXV. Avec le texte Latin, corrigé sur les Mss. de Vossius & sur la I. ed. de Venise, & éclairci par des remarques nouvelles.
Pliny, the Elder.Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]- Books
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New experiments on the ocular spectra of light and colours. By Robert Waring Darwin, M.D. Read at the Royal Society, March 23, 1786.
Darwin, Robert Waring, 1766-1848.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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L'Harmonie du coloris dans la peinture; reduite en pratique mecanique et à des regles sures & faciles: avec des figures en coleur, ... Par J.C. le Blon.
Le Blon, J. C., 1667-1741.Date: 1725]- Books
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An address to the pubilc on the polygraphic art. Invented by Mr. Joseph Booth, portrait-painter.
Booth, Joseph, -1789.Date: [1788?]- Books
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Papers selected from the Censor. Written by - H. Of which two were condemned to be burned by the common hangman.
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