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I'm really curious how they accounted for many color names being relatively recent, including basic things like "blue".
by vanderZwan 4y ago
I'm really curious how they accounted for many color names being relatively recent, including basic things like "blue".
- ctrlmeta 4y ago> Hyginus (Rome) and Sima Qian (China) independently report it two millennia ago as appearing like Saturn (B−V=1.09 ± 0.16 mag) in colour and ‘yellow’ (quantifiable as B−V=0.95 ± 0.35 mag), respectively (together, 5.1σ different from today).
- vanderZwan 4y ago> appearing like Saturn Ah, that's a smart workaround!