Farben und Schöpfung [electronic resource] : acht Vorlesungen über die Beziehungen der Farben zum Menschen und zur Natur

Magnus, Hugo, 1842-1907 · 1881 · Breslau : F. U. Kern · 3 pictures

A German lecture series of eight talks on colour and nature by the physician and writer Hugo Magnus, published in Breslau in 1881 for a general educated readership. The pictures are plain line diagrams of optics and vision, including a spectrum with prismatic dispersion, a cross-section of the eye with converging light rays, and a decorative initial letter framed by flowering sprigs. A designer might take the clean diagram style and the botanical initial as models for scientific figures and ornamental capitals.

Color · Color Perception

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