900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692 (With Complete High-Res Scan)

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Boogert cre­at­ed one, and only one, copy of his extra­or­di­nary man­u­al on col­or mix­ing in 1692. Appear­ing on the thresh­old of mod­ern col­or the­o­ry, and fea­tur­ing over 700 pages of col­or swatch­es, the book draws on Aristotle’s sys­tem of col­or rather than the new under­stand­ing of the col­or spec­trum, ful­ly elab­o­rat­ed by New­ton in his Opticks over a decade lat­er. But his col­or sys­tem was already pass­ing away in the New­ton­ian age of col­or spec­trums and wheels, until paint chips final­ly came back in style.

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