[lit-ideas] Geary on Colour
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 11:18:50 EDT
In a message dated 5/19/2004 2:29:30 AM Eastern Standard Time,
atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
The blue wave-lengths are reflected to our eyes because there
is nothing blue in the ['blue'] flower to absorb them. The flower is
blueless or,
what I term, 'colo[u]rless'.
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R. Paul comments:
>By the way, there is no such thing as 'colour,' and hasn't been since 1727.
Mmm. Geary may be able to provide the details.
At
http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/1701.htm
I find the main events of 1727 were:
Benjamin Franklin founds the Junto Club, at Junto, Florida.
Dr. Cadwallader Colden writes "A History of the Five Indian Nations", in New
Haven, Connecticut.
(and Newton died).
Cheers,
JL
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