Adam Rogers: Full Spectrum: The Science of Color and Modern Human Perception
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The Origins of Color Technology
The history of the way human beings have interacted with color has been a steady or punctuated progress. But one of the most steadfast principles, you have to have something to make white. Lead white was omnipresent in coloring Roman buildings and became the basis for makeup that women there would wear all the way up through those famous pictures of Queen Elizabeth.
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