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THE investigation of the points of resemblance between two sciences, has its value and assists the development of both. Music gains by being thus raised from a mere sentimental recreation to the dignity of a science, but the science of colours may perhaps gain even more than music by the comparison, and this because the ear, in most persons, can distinguish with more precision a discord in sound, than the eye can in colour.
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OKELY, W. Concomitant Sounds and Colours. Nature 1, 557–558 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001557b0
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