Abstract
THE Scientific American, of New York City, in its issue of October 19, 1895, quotes from a letter to NATURE (vol. lii. p. 413), written by Mr. Herbert Spencer, suggesting that a system of colour nomenclature might be devised by indicating colours in a manner analogous to the accepted nomenclature of the points of the compass.
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PRANG, L. The Nomenclature of Colours. Nature 53, 55–56 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/053055c0
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