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NATURAL colour phenomena have been to a large extent accepted, rather than investigated, until fairly recent times, but our knowledge of what the dictionaries call ‘chromatics’ is now growing rapidly, and the word may soon lose its unfamiliar and faintly ambiguous savour. Such commercial activities as colour photography and an ever-expanding dye industry are largely responsible for the increasing colour-consciousness of to-day, and the chief stimulus to the study of colour comes from technical, rather than academic scientific, sources. The authors of “Colour in Theory and Practice” have travelled from the particular field of colour reproduction to the general consideration of colour.
Colour in Theory and Practice
Vol. 1. General Theory. By H. D. Murray and Dr. D. A. Spencer. Pp. xvi + 176 + 3 pl. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1939.) 25s. net.
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CLAY, S. Colour in Theory and Practice. Nature 144, 227 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144227a0
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