A Guide to Color from 1692
openculture.com
openculture.com
Two other refs....
Kuehni, Rolf G., and Andreas Schwarz. Color ordered: a survey of color systems from antiquity to the present. Oxford University Press, 2008.
And Handprint.com
The guy that runs handprint probably knows more about color than any man alive.
I needed to spend some time clicking around to figure out what was where, but then just spent half an hour learning about which hue is actually the warmest (there is no universally accepted answer, but a common theme is scarlet).
On the other hand, white light does contain all of the visible spectrums. Maybe Aristotle had seen prismatic diffraction and considered it beyond his powers.
It does seem that way! There may be a Dunning-Krueger selection bias at work here - people who admitted ignorance were not remembered, while people who confidently asserted things were treated as authorities. Religious institution surely bears some blame in Western culture - notions such as "skepticism" and "seeing for yourself" were culturally suppressed for nearly 2000 years.
* the "Sobieski Stewarts'" dodgy Vestiarium Scoticum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestiarium_Scoticum
> It was from Eilean Aigas, in 1842, that the brothers at last published their famous manuscript, Vestiarium Scoticum . It appeared in a sumptuous edition limited to fifty copies. The series of coloured illustrations of tartans was the first ever to be published and was a triumph over technical difficulties. These illustrations were executed by a new process of ‘machine printing’ and, in the words of a scholar writing fifty years later, ‘for beauty of execution and exactness of detail have not been excelled by any method of colour-printing subsequently invented’.
> Hugh Trevor-Roper, "The Invention of Tradition: The Highland Tradition of Scotland"
* Oliver Byrne's colour edition of the first six books of Euclid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Byrne_(mathematician)#B...
And why not throw in Shadows From the Walls of Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows_from_the_Walls_of_Deat... with its samples of intensely green arsenical wallpaper?
A colourful book (1692) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7702850 - May 2014 (8 comments)
It's relatively large (336 MB), though, and much of the content is text that looks like it was handwritten in Elvish. The image of the title page shown at the openculture.com link has been color-corrected nicely, so the actual document looks significantly duller in comparison.
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Some sites get upset but most don't. I'm very grateful to the original programmer who came up with this code.
In practice, you end up needing at least two or three different buttons to handle different sites. The one I usually use is
javascript:(function(){(function()
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()})()I will now rename my shortcut to "dump floaters". Dump is en_GB for the act of delivering floaters and also a slang term for "get rid of". So I unleash a bit of JS with a name that simultaneously means to create or remove a lump of shit, depending on how you decipher it.
That seems quite appropriate.