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• Aula Lucis, or, The House of Light: A Discourse Written in the Year 1651 (London: Printed for William Leake, 1652), by Thomas Vaughan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lychnocavsia, sive, Moralia facvm emblemata (Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Michael Sparke Iunior ..., 1638), by Robert Farlie (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Aula lucis,: or, The house of light : a discourse written in the year 1651. / By S.N. a modern speculator. (London : Printed for VVilliam Leake, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Crowne in Fleet-street, between the two Temple Gates, 1652), by Thomas Vaughan (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (in Latin; Rome: Sumptibus H. Scheus, 1646), by Athanasius Kircher (page images in Germany)
• Outlines of Experiments and Inquiries Respecting Sound and Light (reprinted from Philosophical Transactions; London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1800), by Thomas Young (page images at NIH)
• Buffon's Natural History: Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c. (10 volumes; 1797 and 1807), by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, trans. by James Smith Barr (multiple formats at HathiTrust, archive.org, and Gutenberg)
• Opticks (Printed for William and John Innys at the West End of St. Paul's, 1721), by Isaac Newton (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'homme. Et la formation du foetus / avec remarques de Louis de la Forge. A quoy l'on a ajouté Le monde, oū, Traité de la lumiere / du mesme autheur. (T. Girard, 1677), by René Descartes, Theodore Girard, Claude Clerselier, Louis de La Forge, and Florentius Schuyl (page images at HathiTrust)
• De lucis natura et proprietate (Apud Ludovicum & Danielem Elzevirios, 1662), by Isaac Vossius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epistola ad Isaacum Vossium (Apud Ludovicum & Danielem Elzevirios, 1663), by Johannes de Bruyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ars magna lucis et vmbrae in decem libros digesta (Romae : Sumptibus Hermanni Scheus : Ex typographia Ludouici Grignani, MDCXLVI [1646], 1646), by Athanasius Kircher, Lodovico Grignani, Hermann Scheus, Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, King of the Romans Ferdinand IV, and Pierre Miotte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opuscula posthuma (Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1728), by Christiaan Huygens, Bernhardus Fullenius, Burcherus de Volder, Willem Jacob 's Gravesande, Guido Grandi, John Warner, and Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Father Malebranche his treatise concerning the search after truth The whole work complete. To which is added the author's Treatise of nature and grace: being a consequence of the principles contained in the search. Together with his answer to the animadversions upon the first volume: his defence against the accusations of Monsieur De la Ville, &c. relating to the same subject. All translated by T. Taylor, M.A. late of Magdalen College in Oxford. (London : Printed by W. Bowyer, for Thomas Bennet at the Half-Moon, and T. Leigh and W. Midwinter at the Rose and Crown, in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1700), by Nicolas Malebranche and Thomas Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (London: Printed for H. Herringman, 1664), by Robert Boyle (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Recueil de divers ouvrages sur la peinture et le coloris (Cellot & Jombert, 1775), by Roger de Piles (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the art of painting, and the composition of colours : containing instructions for all the various processes of painting : together with observations upon the qualities and ingredients of colours (Published and sold by the author of the original ... :, 1797), by Constant de Massoul (page images at HathiTrust)
• An experimental inquiry into the cause of the changes of colours in opake and coloured bodies. With an historical preface relative to the parts of philosophy therein examined, and to the several arts and manufactures dependent upon them. (Printed for J. Nourse and P. Elmsly, 1777), by Edward Hussey Delaval (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorie di osservazioni e di sperienze sopra la colutra, e gli usi di varie piante che servono, o che servir possono utilmente alla tintura, all'economia, all'agricoltura, ec. Tomo primo (Nella Stamperia del Seminario, 1766), by Pietro Arduino and Italy) Stamperia del Seminario (Padua (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observationes dioptricæ et anatomicæ comparatae de coloribus apparentibus, visu, et oculo (Typis Caroli Conzatti, 1798), by Andrea Comparetti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theory of colours and vision (S. Leacroft, 1777), by M. Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Versuch eines Farbensystems (Verlegts Augustin Bernardi, Buchhändler, 1772), by Ignaz Schiffermüller, Augustin Bernardi, and Ferdinand Landerer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoria sobre a formação natural das cores (Na Officina Typographica da Viuva de Ibarra, 1791), by Diogo de Carvalho e Sampaio and Viuda de Joaquín Ibarra (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novvelles observations et coniectvres svr l'iris (Chez Pierre Rocolet ..., 1650), by Marin Cureau de La Chambre (page images at HathiTrust)
• De coloribus (s.n., 1530), by Antonio Telesio, Lazare de Baïf, Aulus Gellius, and Marsilio Ficino (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'optique des couleurs : fondée sur les simples observations & tournée sur-tout à la pratique de la peinture, de la teinture, & des autres arts coloristes (Chez Briasson ..., 1740), by Louis-Bertrand Castel (page images at HathiTrust)
• De coloribus libellus (Ex officina Laurentii Torrentini, 1548), by Simone Porzio, Lorenzo Torrentino, and Aristotle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogo di m. Lodovico Dolce : nel quale si ragiona delle qualità, diversità, e proprietà, de i colori. (Appresso Gio. Battista, Marchio Sessa, et fratelli, 1565), by Lodovico Dolce, Melchiorre Sessa, and Giovanni Battista Sessa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogue sur le coloris. (Chez Nicolas Langlois ..., 1699), by Roger de Piles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von den Farben und Künsten der Römer : Originaltext und Übersetzung (Wilhelm Braumüller, 1873), by Eraclius and Albert Ilg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farbenmaterialien : eine vollständige Sammlung brauchbarer Abhandlungen und Erfahrungen für Künstler und Fabrikanten die mit Farben zu thun haben (Bey Christian Friedrich Himburg, 1789), by Johann Herrmann Pfingsten and Christian Friedrich Himburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Versuche, Unterhaltungen und Belustigungen aus der natürlichen Magie : zur Lehre, zum Nutzen und zum Vergnügen bestimmt (Bei Adam Gottlieb Schneider, von Nürnberg, 1791), by Johann Conrad Gütle and Johann Ludwig Stahl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Varii de naturalibus rebus libelli (Venetiis : Apud Felicem Valgrisium, MDXC [1590], 1590), by Bernardino Telesio, Felice Valgrisi, and Antonio Persio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des couleurs matérielles et de la maniere de colorer relativement aux différens arts et métiers (Chez Saugrain & Lamy ... et chez Barrois aîné ..., 1779), by Lepileur d'Apligny and Claude Marin Saugrain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experiments and considerations touching colours first occasionally written, among some other essays to a friend, and now suffer'd to come abroad as the beginning of an experimental history of colours / by the Honourable Robert Boyle ... (London : Printed for Henry Herringman ..., 1664), by Robert Boyle (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Father Malebranche his treatise concerning the search after truth The whole work complete. To which is added the author's Treatise of nature and grace: being a consequence of the principles contained in the search. Together with his answer to the animadversions upon the first volume: his defence against the accusations of Monsieur De la Ville, &c. relating to the same subject. All translated by T. Taylor, M.A. late of Magdalen College in Oxford. (London : Printed by W. Bowyer, for Thomas Bennet at the Half-Moon, and T. Leigh and W. Midwinter at the Rose and Crown, in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1700), by Nicolas Malebranche and Thomas Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Tratado Instructivo y Práctico Sobre el Arte de la Tintura: Reglas Experimentadas y Metódicas para Tintar Sedas, Lanas, Hilos de Todas Clases y Esparto en Rama (in Spanish; Madrid: Imp. de Blas Román, 1778), by Luis Fernández
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• The country dyer's assistant (Printed by E. Merriam & Co. for the author, 1798), by Asa Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arts et metiers (Par la Compagnie, 1758) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The golden cabinet : being the laboratory, or handmaid to the arts : containing such branches of useful knowledge, as nearly concerns all kinds of people, from the squire to the peasant : and will afford both profit and delight. (Printed and sold by William Spotswood, and H. and P. Rice, Market-Street, 1793), by William Spotswood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Versuch eines Farbensystems (Verlegts Augustin Bernardi, Buchhändler, 1772), by Ignaz Schiffermüller, Augustin Bernardi, and Ferdinand Landerer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delle porpore e delle materie vestiarie presso gli antichi : dissertazione epistolare (Dalla Stamperia ducale, 1786), by Michele Rosa, Francesco Rosaspina, and Italy) Stamperia Ducale (Modena (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophy of permanent colors (Printed for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell) ..., 1794), by Edward Bancroft, William Davies, and Thomas Cadell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The golden cabinet : being the laboratory, or handmaid to the arts : containing such branches of useful knowledge, as nearly concerns all kinds of people, from the squire to the peasant, and will afford both profit and delight. (Printed and sold by William Spotswood and H. & P. Rice ..., 1793), by Patrick Rice, Henry Rice, and William Spotswood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kunst des Wollenzeugfabrikanten, oder, Neueste vollständige Beschreibung geschorne, glatte und gekreutzte Wollenzeuge zu verfertigen (Bey Christoph Weigel und Adam Gottlieb Schneider, 1782), by Jean-Marie Roland de La Platière and Johann Conrad Harrepeter (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de faire les Indiennes : et de composer les plus belles couleurs, bon teint, à cet usage, de peindre les étosses de soie, & en miniature : de laver les desseins, plans, cartes géographiques &c. : de teindre le bois, la paille, le crin, les fleurs artificielles, &c. : avec plusieurs secrets pour faire toute sorte de couleurs qui n'altérent point les étosses & qui sont à l'épreuve du grand air & due soleil (Chez les libraires associés, 1786), by M. Delormois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neues Färberbuch, oder, Kurzer Unterricht, Wolle, Seide und Leinwand zu färben : nebst Recepten zu verschiedenen Arten von Dinte, wie auch allerley Flecke aus allerhand Waaren zu machen ; aus dem Dänischen übersetzt ([s.n.], 1771), by Sörens Abildgaard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die rechte und wahrhafte Färbe-Kunst : worinnen I. Gründlich gewiesen wird, wie man alle Farben auf vier bis fünferley Art, als Wollen, Halbwollen und Leinen, wie auch auf Baumwolle, und letzlich schöne Stücke auf Seiden vollkommen färben kan; II. Was vor Waaren darzu können gebrauchet werden ... III. Wie die Wasser verbessert werden sollen ... nebst einigen schönen Kunst-Stücken, aus allen Waaren, sie mögen auch Namen haben, wie sie wollen, die Flecken zu bringen, und die Fehler zu verbessern (Verlegts Johann Christoph Hering, 1751), by Jeremias Friedrich Gülich and Johann Christoph Hering (page images at HathiTrust)
• Éléments de l'art de la teinture (Chez Firmin Didot, libraire pour l'artillerie et le genie, 1791), by Claude-Louis Berthollet and Firmin Didot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouveau teinturier parfait (Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, libraire du roi ..., 1769), by M. Delormois and Charles-Antoine Jombert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Istruzioni sulla coltura, e preparazione della garanza (Nella Stamperia reale, 1770), by Giuseppe Maria Pio Revelli and Italy) Stamperia reale (Turin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drey schoner künstreicher büchlein : das erste von Mackel vñ Flecken, die selben aus allerley gewandt, on schaden zu bringen : das ander von Stahel vnd Eysen, vnd allerley Metall, hart vnd weich zu machen : das dritte, von mancherley Farben zu bereyten : welcher titel du ynwendig an diesem blat klerlicher finden wirst. (Durch Michael Blum, 1532) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farbenmaterialien : eine vollständige Sammlung brauchbarer Abhandlungen und Erfahrungen für Künstler und Fabrikanten die mit Farben zu thun haben (Bey Christian Friedrich Himburg, 1789), by Johann Herrmann Pfingsten and Christian Friedrich Himburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de la teinture des fils et étoffes de coton : précédé d'une théorie nouvelle des véritables causes de la fixité des couleurs de bon teint, & suivi des Cultures du pastel, de la gaude, de la garance (Chez Moutard, libraire de la reine ..., 1776), by Lepileur d'Apligny and Nicolas-Léger Moutard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arte de la tintura (En la imprenta de Blas Roman, 1778), by Luis Fernández (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discovery of subterraneall treasure viz. of all manner of mines and mineralls, from the gold to the coale; with plaine directions and rules for the finding of them in all kingdoms and countries. And also the art of melting, refining, and assaying of them is plainly declared, so that every ordinary man, that is indifferently capacious, may with small change presently try the value of such oares as shall be found either by rule or by accident. Whereunto is added a reall experiment whereby every ignorant man may presently try whether any peece of gold that shal come to his hands be true or connterfeit [sic] ... Also a perfect way to try what colour any berry, leafe, flower, stalke, root, fruit, seed, barke, or wood will give: with a perfect way to make colours that they shall not stayne nor fade like ordinary colours. ... (Imprinted at London : By I. Okes, for Iasper Emery, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Eagle and Child in Pauls Church-yard next Watlin-street, M DC XXXIX [1639]), by Gabriel Plattes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A profitable booke declaring dyuers approoued remedies, to take out spottes and staines, in silkes, veluets, linnnen [sic] and woollen clothes. With diuers colours how to die velvets and silkes, linnen and woollen, fustian and threade. Also to dresse leather, and to colour felles. How to gylde, graue, sowder and vernishe. And to harden and make softe yron and steele. : Very necessarie to all men, speciallye for those which hath or shall haue any doinges therein: with a perfite table herevnto, to fynde all thinges readye, not the like reuealde in English heretofore. / Taken out of Dutche, and englished [sic] by L.M.. (Jmprinted at London : by Thomas Purfoote, and William Pounsonbie., 1583.), by Leonard Mascall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Whereas diuers great deceipts and abuses tending not only to the preiudice of vs in our customes ([London] : Printed by Thomas Purfoot, [1604]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I) and James 1566-1625 (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reasons for renewing the office for finding out and punishing the abuses in silk-dying ([London : s.n., 1662?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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