Frontispiece illustrating Optics THE PRISMATICAL COLOURS EMBODIED INTO SEVEN FEMALE FIGURES THREE OF WHICH ARE DISTINGUISHED AS GENERATIVE AND PRIMITIVE ELEMENTS BY A CROWN AND AN EMBROIDERED MANTLE INTIMATING THAT THE RAY OF LIGHT IS COMPOSED OF YELLOW RED AND BLUE ONLY AND THAT THE OTHER COLOURS ARE MERE COMPOSITIONS OR INTERMIXTURES OF THE PRINCIPAL ONES AT THEIR RESPECTIVE CONTIGUITIES EACH OF THESE FIGURES HOLDS A REPRESENTATIVE OF ONE OF THE SEVEN COLOURS IN THE RAINBOW AS FOUND IN THE IMMENSE STORE OF NEVERCHANGING NATURE AND IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER The Hebrew Text of 'And God said Let
Frontispiece illustrating Optics THE PRISMATICAL COLOURS EMBODIED INTO SEVEN FEMALE FIGURES THREE OF WHICH ARE DISTINGUISHED AS GENERATIVE AND PRIMITIVE ELEMENTS BY A CROWN AND AN EMBROIDERED MANTLE INTIMATING THAT THE RAY OF LIGHT IS COMPOSED OF YELLOW RED AND BLUE ONLY AND THAT THE OTHER COLOURS ARE MERE COMPOSITIONS OR INTERMIXTURES OF THE PRINCIPAL ONES AT THEIR RESPECTIVE CONTIGUITIES EACH OF THESE FIGURES HOLDS A REPRESENTATIVE OF ONE OF THE SEVEN COLOURS IN THE RAINBOW AS FOUND IN THE IMMENSE STORE OF NEVERCHANGING NATURE AND IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER The Hebrew Text of 'And God said Let there be light and there was light' Genesis Chapter 1 verse 3. Copperplate engraving From the Encyclopaedia Londinensis or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature; Volume XVII; Edited by Wilkes, John. Published in London in 1820
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Location: London
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