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 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.