The Harmonies of Nature; Or, The Unity of CreationLongmans, Green, and Company, 1866 - 406 páginas |
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... Colours - The Harmony between Colours and the Human Mind - What is Heat ? -What is Light ? -Importance of the Ethereal Spaces with regard to the Distribution of Heat and Light . 11 CHAPTER III . THE ATMOSPHERIC OCEAN . Immensity of the ...
... Colours - The Harmony between Colours and the Human Mind - What is Heat ? -What is Light ? -Importance of the Ethereal Spaces with regard to the Distribution of Heat and Light . 11 CHAPTER III . THE ATMOSPHERIC OCEAN . Immensity of the ...
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... colours the painter imitates the blushing morn or the moonbeam dancing on the lake ; the forest , the sea , the moun- tains appear on his canvas like reality itself ; but the wonders of the starry heavens mock the weakness of his art ...
... colours the painter imitates the blushing morn or the moonbeam dancing on the lake ; the forest , the sea , the moun- tains appear on his canvas like reality itself ; but the wonders of the starry heavens mock the weakness of his art ...
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... Colours - The Harmony between Colours and the Human Mind - What is Heat ? -What is Light ? -Importance of the Ethereal Spaces with regard to the Distribution of Heat and Light . SNOW covers the fields , the rivulets are ice - bound ...
... Colours - The Harmony between Colours and the Human Mind - What is Heat ? -What is Light ? -Importance of the Ethereal Spaces with regard to the Distribution of Heat and Light . SNOW covers the fields , the rivulets are ice - bound ...
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... coloured garb , would offer but a few dull and monotonous tints . As , however , but few bodies reflect or absorb the entire sunbeam , while the majority retain only a part of the prismatic colours and reject the remainder , which thus ...
... coloured garb , would offer but a few dull and monotonous tints . As , however , but few bodies reflect or absorb the entire sunbeam , while the majority retain only a part of the prismatic colours and reject the remainder , which thus ...
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Georg Ludwig Hartwig. The immense variety of colours with which the face of Nature is adorned , not only affords the ... coloured sunbeam and the wants of our spiritual nature , evidently proving that both proceed from the same divine ...
Georg Ludwig Hartwig. The immense variety of colours with which the face of Nature is adorned , not only affords the ... coloured sunbeam and the wants of our spiritual nature , evidently proving that both proceed from the same divine ...
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