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Optics: a colour-circle, after M. E. Chevreul. Colour aquatint (?) by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1868.

Date

1868

Reference

47500i

Farben der Gesundheit : das Planungshandbuch für Gestalter im Gesundheitswesen = Colours of health & care : the planning manual for designers in the healthcare sector / herausgeber, Wolf D. Karl ; Axel Venn, Herbert Schmitmeier, Janina Venn-Rosky ; translation into English, Bianca Murphy.

Date

[2011]

Optics: emission spectra of various metals. Colour aquatint by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1883.

Date

1883

Reference

47499i

Hospital color and decoration / Raymond P. Sloan.

Date

1944

Die Physiologie der Farben : für die Zwecke der Kunstgewerbe / auf Anregung der Direction des kaiserlich Oesterreichischen Museums für Kunst und Industrie bearbeitet von Ernst Brücke.

Date

1866

A queen dressed in blue, representing mercury, in a crowned alchemical flask. Watercolour painting.

Reference

38826i

Die Farbenlehre im Hinblick auf Kunst und Kunstgewerbe / von Wilh. v. Bezold.

Date

1874

The brain seen from the underside, sectioned horizontally; with attention to the parts associated by Hollander's system of phrenology with the faculties of external perception and its memory. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.

Date

1901

Reference

28018i

Curious naturalists / Niko Tinbergen.

Date

1974

Optics: spectra of various gases. Colour aquatint by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1883.

Date

1883

Reference

47498i

Light and colour perception / by F.W. Edridge-Green.

Date

1901

A red-faced king stands in a red robe, flanked by a queen and the deity Mercury in green clothes; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.

Reference

38627i

Natura-cultura : l'interpretazione del mondo fisico nei testi e nelle immagini : atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Mantova, 5-8 ottobre 1996 / a cura di Giuseppe Olmi, Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, Attilio Zanca.

Date

2000

A new practical treatise on the three primitive colours assumed as a perfect system of rudimental information ... With some practical rules for reflections; and Sir Isaac Newton's distribution of the colours in the rainbow / By Charles Hayter.

Date

1826

An eye in a star, the spokes of which divide the spectrum of colours; putti hold a prism, a telescope, a rod refracted in water, and a camera obscura; representing optics. Engraving by J. Chapman, 1820, after A.D. Macquin.

Date

January 1820

Reference

25681i

A new elucidation of colours, original, prismatic, and material; showing their concordance in three primitives, yellow, red, and blue; and the means of producing, measuring, and mixing them. With some observations on the accuracy of Sir Isaac Newton ... / By James Sowerby.

Date

1809

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.

Date

MDCCLXXXV. [1785]

A crowned woman in red holding a rose-topped caduceus; she is suspended in a circle of water; a cherub blows wind from above; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.

Reference

38629i

Farben und Schöpfung : acht Vorlesungen über die Beziehungen der Farben zum Menschen und zur Natur / von Hugo Magnus.

Date

1881

Optics: crystals exhibiting interference colours. Colour mezzotint [?] by R.H. Digeon, ca. 1883, after J. Silbermann.

Date

1883

Reference

47057i

Die Kontroverse um die Farbenlehre : anschauliche Darstellung der Forschungswege von Newton und Goethe / Maurice Martin.

Date

cop. 1979

Lighting and colour for hospital design : a report on an NHS Estates funded research project / by Hilary Dalke, Paul J. Littlefair, David L. Loe, BRE, London South Bank University.

Date

2004

Lazari Bayfii Annotationes in Legem II de captiuis & postliminio reuersis, in quibus tractatur de re nauali, per autorem recognitae. Eivsdem annotationes in tractatum de auro et argento legato quibus vestimentorum, et vasculorum genera explicantur. Item Antonii Thylesii de coloribus libellus, a coloribus uestium non alienus / [Lazare de Baïf].

Date

1537

A queen in red is presented with dishes of blood on a hill; below, a man in a white robe gesticulates to the heavens; while another man stands next to alchemical apparatus, facing a man who is lying sick in bed; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.

Reference

38630i

Tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge, buildinge / written first in Italian, and Englished by R[ichard] H[aydocke] student in physik. [With a foreword by John Case].

Date

[1598]