Plate I: Couleurs d'un spectre solaire
Colors of the Solar Spectrum
- Part of Des couleurs et de leurs applications aux arts industriels à l'aide des cercles chromatiques
- 1864
Inscribed: "Couleurs d’un spectre solaire produit par un prisme de sulfure de carbone comparées aux types du premier cercle chromatique de Mr. E. Chevreul."
The plate indicates colors from Chevreul’s "first chromatic circle" along the solar spectrum produced by a carbon disulfide prism. The solid lines bearing letters correspond to the spectral lines mapped by German optician Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787–1826), known as Fraunhofer lines. Chevreul notes that he was only able to distinguish 15 colors from the First Chromatic Circle on the solar spectrum with any exactitude.
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Chevreul, M. E. (Michel Eugène). “Plate I: Couleurs d'Un Spectre Solaire.” In Des Couleurs Et De Leurs Applications Aux Arts Industriels à l'Aide Des Cercles Chromatiques. Paris, France: J.-B. Baillière et fils, 1864. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/dr26xx626.
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