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, Le carmin est un des plus beau rouge pour laver, qu'on sache trouver (?) & c'est du Carmin dont on se servira

, See the manuscript Journal Book at the Royal Society Library, issue.8, p.62, 1686.

, See the manuscript Register Book at the Royal Society Library, RBO/6/91: 296; and JBO/8, February 17, 1686: 30. My thanks to Louisiane Ferlier, Royal Society Journal Collections: Science in the Making

, The National Gallery's 3 volume authoritative edition of Artists' Pigments: A Handbook of Their History and Characteristics, 1986.

, See Smithsonian copy of Le Blon's Coloritto, Or, the Harmony of Painting, s.n, 1720, p.39088003601184

«. The and . Tabula, Colorum Physiologica » is a folded leaf of plate mounted at beginning of Philosophical Transactions 16, p.179, 1686.

, Ephe? meris, or, A diary astronomical, astrological, meteorological, for the year of our Lord, 1688. J.D. for the Company of Stationers, See the end pages of the Folger Library copy of John Gadbury

, The rest of the 13 manuscript pages deal with arithmetical problems and their solutions

, Les Couleurs à huile ont cela pardessus les autres, que les Teintes s'en peuvent mêler facilement par le manîment du Pinceau

A. Stijnman and E. Upper, Savage's Printing Colour 1400-1700 project, reassessing colour-prints and the long-alleged early-modern Western chromophobia in learned publication has now extended its scrutiny to Western colour printmaking in the long eighteenth century, pp.1700-1830

, My thanks to Katherine Reinghart, of the Royal Society Making Visible Project, for discussion of Sachiko Kusukawa's article

, See the c. 1750 manuscript, compiled as a chrestomathy of military manuals, Porte-feuille militaire : contenant les parties les plus nécéssaires à un officier d'infanterie, Society of Cincinnati Library, MSS L2007F122, p.268

, was the name for the colour black in heraldry, coming from the marten's dark brown fur. It is not to be mistaken for the naturalistic indication of "couleur de sable" in Dupain's text: "Les Dunes se font [?] plus ordinairement avec une couleur de sable, qui leur convient beaucoup mieux

, Si on prend le parti de les pointiller, elles paraissent encore plus de resemblance