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Books in brief
2016
Nature
Heliotrope, gamboge, umber: the names of colours are as luscious as the hues themselves. Kassia St Clair serves up a chromatic buffet of the chemistry, history and cultural associations of 75 dyes, pigments and shades, including encapsulations of optics and colour theory. The gorgeous, malodorous Turkey red, for instance, was made in a "tortuous process involving rancid castor oil, ox blood and dung", and the Roman emperor Nero used a large emerald as "proto-sunglasses" while watching
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