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CHARLES BOURGEOIS (1759-1832), HIS ANTINEWTONIAN COLOUR THEORY AND THE RECONCILEMENT OF ART AND SCIENCE

CHARLES BOURGEOIS (1759-1832), HIS ANTINEWTONIAN COLOUR THEORY AND THE RECONCILEMENT OF ART AND... <jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>title ABSTRACT /title Between 1810 and 1825, Charles Bourgeois (1759-1832), miniaturist, pigment manufacturer and physicist, developed a colour optics that defied both the Newtonian view of the composite nature of white light and the widely accepted strict separation between science and the arts. In this paper four themes are discussed: the general rules of colour mixing and the resulting three-dimensional colour space CEI (Couleur, Excdent, Intensit); Bourgeois' theory of light as a vehicle for non-luminous colours; His attempt at disproving Newton's central principle of the unequal refrangibility of different colours; and his relation, or rather non-relation, with the Royal Academy of Sciences which considered Bourgeois' theory of light a piece of nonsense.</jats:p> </jats:sec> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nuncius (successor of "Annali") Brill

CHARLES BOURGEOIS (1759-1832), HIS ANTINEWTONIAN COLOUR THEORY AND THE RECONCILEMENT OF ART AND SCIENCE

Nuncius (successor of "Annali") , Volume 22 (1): 15 – Jan 1, 2007

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0394-7394
eISSN
1825-3911
DOI
10.1163/182539107X00022
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Abstract

<jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>title ABSTRACT /title Between 1810 and 1825, Charles Bourgeois (1759-1832), miniaturist, pigment manufacturer and physicist, developed a colour optics that defied both the Newtonian view of the composite nature of white light and the widely accepted strict separation between science and the arts. In this paper four themes are discussed: the general rules of colour mixing and the resulting three-dimensional colour space CEI (Couleur, Excdent, Intensit); Bourgeois' theory of light as a vehicle for non-luminous colours; His attempt at disproving Newton's central principle of the unequal refrangibility of different colours; and his relation, or rather non-relation, with the Royal Academy of Sciences which considered Bourgeois' theory of light a piece of nonsense.</jats:p> </jats:sec>

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Nuncius (successor of "Annali")Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2007

Keywords: Keywords: Colour space, optics, theory of light

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