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At least two centuries before colorimetry attained widespread, routine use, efforts were made to arrange and display colors in orderly manners. I consider it probable that Leonardo da Vinci may have painted sequences in which closely related colors were near each other and contrasting colors were widely separated.
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MacAdam, D.L. (1985). Color-Order Systems. In: Color Measurement. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 27. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38681-0_9
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