{"id":11844,"date":"2013-01-16T21:39:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T02:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=11844"},"modified":"2013-01-16T21:39:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T02:39:30","slug":"the-first-colour-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/the-first-colour-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"The first colour wheel&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11846\" title=\"Colour_Wheel_Moses_Harris_1766\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Colour_Wheel_Moses_Harris_1766.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"586\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>English entomologist and engraver <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moses_Harris\" target=\"_blank\">Moses Harris<\/a> (1730-1788) devised the first <em>full-colour wheel<\/em> in 1766, creating the foundation of modern colour theory.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The 18 colours of his wheel were derived from what he then called the three &#8216;primitive&#8217; colours: red, yellow and blue. At the center of the wheel, Harris showed that black is formed by the superimposition of these colours.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Thanks Moses.<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/12\/21\/100-diagrams-that-changed-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">source<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. English entomologist and engraver Moses Harris (1730-1788) devised the first full-colour wheel in 1766, creating the foundation of modern colour theory. &#8220;The 18 colours of his wheel were derived from what he then called the three &#8216;primitive&#8217; colours: red, yellow and blue. At the center of the wheel, Harris showed that black is formed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,7,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}