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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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Color wheel
Red, in physics, the longest wavelength of light discernible to the human eye. It falls in the range of 620–750 nanometres in the visible spectrum. In art, red is a colour on the conventional colour wheel, located between violet and orange and opposite green, its complementary colour. Red was the…
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