English Perceptions and Representations of Venetian Chromatic Variations

While Newton was the first to split white light using a triangular prism in 1671, thus putting an end to the linear system of the Aristotelian chromatic scale, previous experiments using the prism as an optical instrument had been made a hundred years before by the Venetian Filipo Mocenigo, Archbish...

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Main Author: Anne GEOFFROY
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2015-06-01
Series:E-REA
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/erea/4509
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