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  2. Mary Gartside - Wikipedia

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    Mary Gartside (c. 1755-1819) was an English water colourist and colour theorist. She published three books between 1805 and 1808. In chronological and intellectual terms Mary Gartside can be regarded an exemplary link between Moses Harris, who published his short but important Natural System of Colours around 1766, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s highly influential theory Zur Farbenlehre ...

  3. Philosophy of color - Wikipedia

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    Mary the color scientist. Mary's room is a thought experiment underpinning the knowledge argument. It was an argument to counter color realism and more broadly physicalism. The thought experiment was originally proposed by Frank Jackson as follows:

  4. Knowledge argument - Wikipedia

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    The knowledge argument (also known as Mary's Room, Mary the Colour Scientist, or Mary the super-scientist) is a philosophical thought experiment proposed by Frank Jackson in his article "Epiphenomenal Qualia" (1982) and extended in "What Mary Didn't Know" (1986).

  5. Color theory - Wikipedia

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    Color theory, or more specifically traditional color theory, is a historical body of knowledge describing the behavior of colors, namely in color mixing, color contrast effects, color harmony, color schemes and color symbolism. [1] Modern color theory is generally referred to as color science.

  6. Christopher Alexander - Wikipedia

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    A New Theory of Urban Design, with Neis, Anninou, and King (1987) Foreshadowing of 21st Century Art: The Color and Geometry of Very Early Turkish Carpets (1993) The Mary Rose Museum, with Black and Tsutsui (1995) The Nature of Order Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life (2002) The Nature of Order Book 2: The Process of Creating Life (2002)

  7. Marion Mahony Griffin - Wikipedia

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    Watercolor from the Canberra Design Artist's Studio (Section). Watercolor and ink by Marion Griffin 1894 Design for Suburban Residence Exhibit plan 2 Design for Suburban Residence Exhibit Plan 1 Marion Mahony Griffin ( née Marion Lucy Mahony ; February 14, 1871 – August 10, 1961) was an American architect and artist.

  8. Blue in culture - Wikipedia

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    In US and European public opinion polls it is the most popular color, chosen by almost half of both men and women as their favorite color. [6] The same surveys also show that blue is the color most associated with the masculine, just ahead of black, and was also the color most associated with intelligence, knowledge, calm, and concentration. [5]

  9. On Vision and Colours - Wikipedia

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    In 1830, Schopenhauer published a revision of his color theory. The title was Theoria colorum Physiologica, eademque primaria (Fundamental physiological theory of color). It appeared in Justus Radius's Scriptores ophthalmologici minores (Minor ophthalmological writings). "This is no mere translation of the first edition," he wrote, "but differs ...