Colour triangle Tobias Mayer
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Colour triangle
Pyramidal scheme for mixing three primary colours, red, yellow and blue, using a mathematical formula.
In this coloured scheme Mayer illustrate his system using pigments, noting the difficulties of mixing material colours which blend to make dark browns, in contrary to Newton’s hypothesis of spectral colour which should produce white.
Tab III to De affinitate colorum commentatio, Part IV to Opera inedita; vol. I by Tobia Mayer and Georgius Christophorus Lichtenberg (Gottingae, 1775). An essay ‘on the relationship between colours’ was published posthumously as part of the collected works of the German astronomer Tobias Mayer.
- Image reference: RS-21976
- ©The Royal Society
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