Color-coordinate system from a 13th-century account of rainbows.
Color-coordinate system from a 13th-century account of rainbows.
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10.1364/josaa.31.00a341
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2014-04-01
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Tanner BK
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Smithson HE;Anderson PS;Dinkova-Bruun G;Fosbury RA;Gasper GE;Laven P;McLeish TC;Panti C;Tanner BK
We present a new analysis of Robert Grosseteste’s account of color in his treatise De iride, On the Rainbow, dating from the early 13th century. The work explores color within the three-dimensional framework set out in Grosseteste’s De colore (see Smithson et al, 2012, A three-dimensional color space from the 13th century.” Journal of the Optical Society of America (A), 29 (2), A346-A352), but now links the axes of variation to observable properties of rainbows. We combine a modern understanding of the physics of rainbows and of human color perception to resolve the linguistic ambiguities of the medieval text and to interpret Grosseteste’s key terms.