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German Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, c. 1780.

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

Swedish chemist

Thenard, lithograph

Louis-Jacques Thenard

French chemist, teacher, and author

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Color wheel, visible light, color spectrum. Colour wheel

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