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THOSE who are interested in colour effects, especially, perhaps, dyers, calico-printers, decorators, students, and, to a lesser degree, artists, will find much useful information in this very moderate-sized volume. The author deals with the production and cause of colour, phe-nomnra of colour, the eye, effects of contrast, and colour measurement. He quotes largely from the standard works of Chevreul, Rood, and, to a smalkr extent, from others. Many useful tables are given with regard to the effects ol juxtaposed colours on each other, the illumination of coloured objects by coloured lights, and concerning the colour and luminosity of the solar spectrum. The absorption spectra of about forty of the commonest pigments, dyes, and coloured glasses are shown as curves. There are eleven full-sized coloured plates which illustrate in a striking manner the effects of colour combinations and similar matters, though when the student of colour sees the fourteen absorption spectra that are represented ia full colour he will wish that it were possible to get such clean-cut absorptions as the diagrams exhibit.
Colour: a Handbook of the Theory of Colour.
By G. H. Hurst. Second edition revised. pp. vii + 160. (London: Scott, Greenwood and Son, 1916.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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Colour: a Handbook of the Theory of Colour . Nature 97, 219–220 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097219a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/097219a0