Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 1879
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1879natur..19..267h&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 19, Issue 482, pp. 267-268 (1879).
Physics
Scientific paper
I FEAR it would be somewhat rash to convict Shakespeare of colour-blindness, or even vagueness in the use of colour-names, solely on the evidence of the Nurse in ``Romeo and Juliet''-a lady who is the Mrs. Malaprop of the play, and whose extraordinary faculty for the confusion of terms may perhaps have contributed somewhat to the ``merriness'' with which she credited her husband. It is possible that the Nurse-in the passage quoted by Mr. J. J. Murphy (NATURE, vol. xix. p. 197)-meant to convey the idea of a hazel eye, which would not be far removed in colour from that of an eagle, but also often has a slight tendency to a greenish hue. The nurse, not being particular as to the precision of her descriptions in general, refers to it as green.
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