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Tanya Kelley
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Tanya Kelley is an adjunct professor of German and Spanish at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, where she received her Ph.D. in Linguistics and History of Science. Her dissertation was titled World to Word: Nomenclature Systems of Color and Species. Other publications include “Goethe's Plant Morphology: The Seeds of Evolution.”

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colour wheel
Blue, in physics, light in the wavelength range of 450–495 nanometres in the visible spectrum. After violet, blue is the spectral region with the shortest wavelengths discernible to the human eye. In art, blue is a colour on the conventional colour wheel, located between green and violet and…
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