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2015

Rotating Disc of Sir Isaac Newton for Mixing Colours

20 1/2"w x 20 1/2"h x 1 3/4"d

Mixed-media assemblage: Wood, acetate, paint, paper. Paper: Bienfang, 1983; geometric color print, 1941; color wheel* from "The Outline of Science," 1937

* "The Spectroscope sorts out the {above} seven colors from sunlight (which is compounded of these seven colours). If painted to proper proportions on a wheel, as shown in the coloured illustration, and the wheel be turned rapidly on a pivot through its centre, only a dull white will be perceived. If one colour be omitted, the result will be one color -- the result of the union of the remaining six."

21SEP2015


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