An experimental inquiry into the cause of the changes of colours in opake and coloured bodies
Subtitle: With an historical preface relative to the parts of philosophy therein examined, and to the several arts and manufactures dependent upon them
Publisher: Printed for J. Nourse and P. Elmsly
Published: 1777
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Color; Early works to 1800; Colors; Colored Glass; Glass painting and staining
Notes: The last section, p. [95]-138, is entitled: "A letter to the right honorable the Earl of Morton, president of the Royal Society, containing experiments and observations on the agreement between the specific gravities of the several metals, and their colours when united to glass, as well as those of their other preparations. With additions. By Edward Delaval, F. R. S. Read at the Royal Society, Jan. 24, 1765."

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