Colours in layers of mica and glass mb-artist W_Read The scene is a merchant's

The scene is a merchant's house near London Bridge

Development began in August 1961 and it was officially shown at the 1967 Frankfurt Auto Show

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Colours in layers of mica and glass mb-artist W_Read The scene is a merchant'sColours observed within layers of mica (figures a f) with concentric circles of sixteen colours based upon Isaac Newton's observation of colours produced at the contact of two telescope object glasses (figure g). Plate 1 from the monograph A new elucidation of colours, original prismatic, and material; showing their coincidence in three primitives, yellow, red and blue, by James Sowerby (London, Richard Taylor and Co., 1809). Inscribed 'Tab. 1' top