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A VERY brilliant rainbow, which occurred on the evening of September 6th, recalled to my mind the note on the correlation of colour and music by Mr. W. F. Barrett, which appeared in NATURE of January 13, 1870, and the subsequent correspondence. The violet of the primary bow passed into red at its concave edge, and within this violet-red arc there was a faint appearance of prismatic colours, blue or green (and I think yellow), and then a distinct red arc, and within this again yet another very faint red arc. Between these last two the other colours of the spectrum, if they existed, were too faint to be seen; but the impression given by a coup d'æil was that of three complete series of colours. There was nothing beyond the red on the outside of the primary bow, except, of course, the secondary bow, at some distance.
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THOMPSON, G. Correlation of Colour and Music. Nature 6, 393–394 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/006393e0
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