Alexander King on Mythryl: “I've mentioned this before, but I adore this period in the 1800s…”

I've mentioned this before, but I adore this period in the 1800s when you could just say whatever you wanted about color. No one knows how it works or why, so anything goes. If you've got a wild theory and some illustrated plates, you're good to go!

The Public Domain Review@publicdomainrev.bsky.social

Colour plates from Edwin D. Babbitt’s Principles of Light and Color (1878). Babbit’s 600-page tome begins as a somewhat sober primer on color theory but goes on to explore the idea that our physical and psychic ills can be cured via “chromotherapy”: publicdomainreview.org/collection/p...

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