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COLOR ORDER SYSTEMS – I José Luis CAIVANO caivano@fadu.uba.ar

University of Buenos Aires and National Council for Research Argentine Color Group

white

yellow

gray

red

blue

Aron Sigfrid Forsius [1550-1624] Physica, manuscript, 1611 “ancient” chromatic circle

brown

green

black

Aron Sigfrid Forsius [1550-1624] Physica, manuscript, 1611 多color sphere?

This is the way Forsius’ scheme should look in order to be a logical natural color system.

(Spillmann)

Possible interpretation of Forsius’ scheme (Caivano)

Robert Fludd [1574-1637] Medicina catholica 1631 the first printed color circle

Isaac Newton [1642-1727 Optics, 1704 circle with the spectrum colors

Claude Boutet [?]: TraitĂŠ de la peinture en mignature, 1708

Tobias Mayer [1723-1762]

chromatic triangle 1758

Tobias Mayer

chromatic triangle

double pyramid (reconstruction by H. Lang 1983)

Moses Harris [1731-1785] The natural system of colours, 1770 “prismatic� colors

Moses Harris

The natural system of colours 1770 “compound� colors

Ignaz Schifferm端ller [1727-1809] Versuch eines Farbensystems, 1772 chromatic circle

Johann Heinrich Lambert [1728-1777]

color pyramid 1772

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [1749-1832] Farbenlehre, 1810 chromatic circle

Goethe: chromatic circle

Philip Otto Runge [1777-1810]

color sphere 1810

Christian Doppler [1803-1853] color spherical octant, 1847

Wilhelm von Bezold [1837-1907] color cone, 1874

Wilhelm Wundt [1832-1920]

color sphere 1874

Wilhelm Wundt

color cone, 1892

double color cone, 1896

Michel Eugène Chevreul [1786-1889]

color half-sphere

August Kirschmann [1860-1932] slanted double color cone, 1895

Association Internationale de la Couleur International Color Association Internationale Vereinigung f端r die Farbe

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