. The art of landscape gardening . Landscape gardening. Fig. 27. lead pencil, or even one's finger, in such a manner as to pro- duce the respective shadows d v and D K; c being a piece of red glass in this experiment. 8. If, instead of red glass, a piece of green glass be placed at c, then the shadow D v will no longer be green, but of a red- dish cast; and so of the rest as mentioned above, at section 3. 9. My friend was very desirous that I should endeavour to account for these beautiful and most extraordinary appear- ances ; with this view, I first observe that the burning lights, A and B,
. The art of landscape gardening . Landscape gardening. Fig. 27. lead pencil, or even one's finger, in such a manner as to pro- duce the respective shadows d v and D K; c being a piece of red glass in this experiment. 8. If, instead of red glass, a piece of green glass be placed at c, then the shadow D v will no longer be green, but of a red- dish cast; and so of the rest as mentioned above, at section 3. 9. My friend was very desirous that I should endeavour to account for these beautiful and most extraordinary appear- ances ; with this view, I first observe that the burning lights, A and B, when the experiments are made without daylight, may be reckoned nearly white, particularly if they are made to burn without smoke, though, in reality, they are yellowish, or even orange-coloured sometimes, as is very plain when they are compared with strong daylight. 10. Secondly, white light is well known to consist of sev- eral other colours, as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818; Nolen, John, 1869-1937; American Society of Landscape Architects. Boston : Houghton Mifflin
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