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== History ==
Color theory is rooted in antiquity, with early musings on color in [[Aristotle]]'s (d. 322 BCE) ''[[On Colors]]'' and [[Claudius Ptolemy]]'s (d. 168 CE) ''[[Optics (Ptolemy)|Optics]]''. The [[Natya_Shastra|Nāṭya Shāstra]] has a theory of color {{cite web |url=https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-natyashastra/d/doc210153.html |title=Chapter XXIII - Costumes and Make-up |last=Shastri |first=Babulal |publisher=Motilal Banarasidass |date=April 16, 2025 |website=Wisdomlib |access-date=April 16, 2025}}, considering four colours as primary, [[black]], [[blue]], [[yellow]] and [[red]]. It also describes the production of derived colors from [[Primary_color|primary colors]].
Color theory is rooted in antiquity, with early musings on color in [[Aristotle]]'s (d. 322 BCE) ''[[On Colors]]'' and [[Claudius Ptolemy]]'s (d. 168 CE) ''[[Optics (Ptolemy)|Optics]]''. The influence of light on color was investigated and revealed further by [[al-Kindi]] (d. 873) and [[Ibn al-Haytham]] (d. 1039). [[Ibn Sina]] (d. 1037), [[Nasir al-Din al-Tusi]] (d. 1274), and [[Robert Grosseteste]] (d. 1253) discovered that contrary to the teachings of Aristotle, there are multiple color paths to get from black to white.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Smithson |first1=H.E. |last2=Dinkova-Bruun |first2=G. |last3=Gasper |first3=G.E.M. |last4=Huxtable |first4=M. |last5=McLeish |first5=T.C.B. |last6=Panti |first6=C.P. |title=A three-dimensional color space from the 13th century |journal=J. Opt. Soc. Am. A |date=2012 |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=A346–A352 |doi=10.1364/josaa.29.00A346|pmid=22330399 |pmc=3287286 |bibcode=2012JOSAA..29A.346S }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kirchner |first1=E. |title=Color theory and color order in medieval Islam: A review |journal=Color Research & Application |date=2013 |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=5–16 |doi=10.1002/col.21861}}</ref> More modern approaches to color theory principles can be found in the writings of [[Leone Battista Alberti]] (c. 1435) and the notebooks of [[Leonardo da Vinci]] (c. 1490).[[File:Color diagram Charles Hayter.jpg|thumb|Page from 1826 ''A New Practical Treatise on the Three Primitive Colours Assumed as a Perfect System of Rudimentary Information'' by [[Charles Hayter]]]]▼
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|quote = The bluish white (kāraṇḍava) colour, is made up of of the white and the blue, and the yellowish white colour (pāṇḍu) of the white and the yellow. The lotus (padma) colour is made up of the white and the red, and the green (harit) colour, of the yellow and the blue. The dark red (kāṣāya) colour is made up of the blue and the red, and the pale-red (gaura) colour of the red and the yellow. These are the derivative colours. Besides these there are [many] minor colours which may be made up of three or four [original] colours.
|author = [[Bharata_(sage)|Bharata]]
|source = ''[[Natya_Shastra|Nāṭya Shāstra]]'', Chapter XXIII - Costumes and Make-up.
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[[Isaac Newton]] (d. 1727) worked extensively on color theory, developing his own theory from the fact that white light is composed of a spectrum of colors, and that color is not intrinsic to objects, but rather arises from the way an object reflects or absorbs different wavelengths. His 1672 paper on the nature of white light and colours forms the basis for all work that followed on colour and colour vision.<ref>{{Citation |last=Marriott |first=F.H.C. |title=Colour Vision: Introduction |date=1962 |work=The Visual Process |pages=219–229 |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/B9781483230894500212 |access-date=2025-03-02 |publisher=Elsevier |language=en |doi=10.1016/b978-1-4832-3089-4.50021-2 |isbn=978-1-4832-3089-4}}</ref>
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