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Dale Cooper by Rinaldo Zoontjes

“ I will see you again in 25 years.”

Luca Barcellona

Two plates from James Sowerby’s A New Elucidation of Colours, Original, Prismatic, and Material (1809)

Johann Heinrich Lambert’s three-dimensional adaptation of Tobias Mayer’s triangle, featured in his “Beschreibung einer mit dem Calauschen Wachse ausgemalten Farbenpyramide” (1772)

a chart from 1746 by Jacques-Fabien Gautier illustrating his theory that the primary colours are black and white, with red, yellow, and blue being secondary. Colours were thought to be drawn out of the shadows by the presence of light.

Richard Waller’s “Tabula Colorum Physiologica”, from “A Catalogue of Simple and Mixt Colours with a Specimen of Each Colour Prefixt Its Properties,” in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 6 for the years 1686 and 1687 (1688)