Fig. 217. Representation of the two disks of complementary colours

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Fig. 217. Representation of the two disks of compl...

produced respectively by the ordinary and extraordinary rays. By the rotation of the analyzer, the extraordinary image (x) revolves around the ordinary image (o), each undergoing a change of colour.

This image is from Sugar Cane in Pereira's Elements of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, 1854.