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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f18a6b23-1425-4296-a2cd-c2e1091cf644/8AF12F3C-8DA6-4F0B-B879-52D8E220DD7F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html" href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html" style="font-size: 11px;">bibliodyssey.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html"><BLOCKQUOTE>"The law of proportion according to which the several colours are formed,<BR />even if a man knew he would be foolish in telling, for he could not give any<BR />necessary reason, nor indeed any tolerable or probable explanation of them."<BR /><SMALL>Plato <SPAN>Timaeus</SPAN></SMALL></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html"><DIV><A href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/1600/Colour%20Pythagoras.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/320/Colour%20Pythagoras.jpg" /></A>Pythagoras ~550BC<BR /></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html"><DIV><A href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/1600/Colour%20Aristotle.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/320/Colour%20Aristotle.jpg" /></A>Aristotle ~350BC<BR /></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/B3799420-0C50-4842-8CC7-5A2D9E70570B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html">Aron Sigfrid Forsius 1611</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/A8DCBAE0-52FC-4787-876E-8848E9F3C7CA" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html">Athanasius Kircher 1646</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/CCACF78E-D6A1-4813-86E1-942225EF6C2F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html">Sir Isaac Newton 1704</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html"><DIV><A href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/1600/Colour%20Schiffermueller.jpg"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1717/1584/320/Colour%20Schiffermueller.jpg" /></A>Ignaz Schiffermüller 1772<BR /></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/E634E8AB-56D3-4149-94AB-F460A17BF350" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html">Tobias Mayer 1775</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/96FEC499-2AE1-4B8B-BB0E-890C83C8266E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html">Philipp Otto Runge 1810</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/EFBE07D2-F1B0-4980-B6CA-7B596886DA89" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html">Michel Eugène Chevreul 1839</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/6F8F008B-1F41-4E01-AC35-70F65E549E3B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html">Albert Henry Munsell 1915</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/img/12DB8F49-0879-4391-9CD7-92DBF5E18210" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html">Michel Albert-Vanel 1983</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/03/history-of-colour-systems.html"><BR /><A href="http://www.colorsystem.com/index.htm">The above illustrations come from The Colour Museum (in english, french and german) which gives a reasonably detailed overview of the history of the human conceptualization of colour</A>. Many of their images are originals but it's a little hard to be sure at times. I suspect the contents of the site doesn't rise to the level of 'scholarship' but it is actually pretty fascinating nonetheless.<BR /><A href="http://www.uni-mannheim.de/fakul/psycho/irtel/colsys/">The University of Mannheim have a modest selection of original book illustrations on this subject</A>.<BR /><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color">Wikipedia on color</A>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8AF12F3C-8DA6-4F0B-B879-52D8E220DD7F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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