In 1766 the British insect researcher and graphic artist Moses Harris (1730 – 1788) published a book called “The Natural System of Colors,” in which he built a dice wheel…
Newton’s color wheel only shows the change in hue and saturation of each color, not the way the darkness of the colors changes. Eighteenth-century theorists expect to build color models…
Is color an attribute of everything in nature as an objective reality? The answer is NO. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and purple are just human names to distinguish…
As stated in the previous article, people know how to draw and mix colors from tens of thousands of years before quantitative theories on the plus color and minus the…
More than 130 years have passed, since Newton discovered that color is not an attribute of light but the perception of the human eye, by 1802 English scholar Thomas Young…
People know how to draw tens of thousands of years before writing. Paintings were found up to 35-40 thousand years ago in caves in Europe and Australia, while writing appeared…
Until the twentieth century, primary colors resembled a philosophical stone (lapis philosophorum) capable of turning ordinary metal into gold that alchemists had long sought. A big mistake that has persisted…