Excerpt from A New Practical Treatise on the Three Primitive Colours, Assumed as a Perfect System of Rudimental Information: Simplifying, Their Universal, in Regular Order of Gradation, Into Colourless Darkness When Equilaterally Concentrated<br><br>Although the mixture of colours may be extended to an infinite variety, almost impossible to be described, I will not omit touching slightly upon it; setting down at first a certain number of simple colours to serve as a foundation, and with each of these mixing one of the others - one with one, then two with two, and three with three; proceeding in this manner to the full mixture of all the colours together. I call those simple colours, which cannot be made or supplied by any mixture of other colours.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.