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    Lieutenant-General Sir Benjamin Thompson wrote a letter to Sir Joseph Banks describing some experiments he conducted on colored shadows. In the letter, Thompson shares the results of lighting objects with colored lights through different mediums to see how they affected the shadows cast. He found that blue and yellow lights produced colored shadows while red lights did not noticeably color the shadows.

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    Lieutenant-General Sir Benjamin Thompson wrote a letter to Sir Joseph Banks describing some experiments he conducted on colored shadows. In the letter, Thompson shares the results of lighting objects with colored lights through different mediums to see how they affected the shadows cast. He found that blue and yellow lights produced colored shadows while red lights did not noticeably color the shadows.

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    An Account of Some Experiments upon Coloured

    Shadows. By Lieutenant-General Sir Benjamin


    Thompson, Count of Rumford, F. R. S. In a Letter
    to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. P. R. S.
    Benjamin Thompson

    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 1794 84, doi: 10.1098/rstl.1794.0013, published


    1 January 1794

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