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1. Experiments on Colour as perceived by the Eye, with Remarks on Colour-Blindness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

James Clerk Maxwell Esq., B.A.
James Clerk Maxwell Esq., B.A.
Affiliation:
Trinity College, Cambridge.
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These experiments were made with the view of ascertaining and registering the judgments of the eye with respect to colours, and then, by a comparison of the results with each other, by means of a graphical construction, testing the accuracy of that theory of the vision of colour which analyses the colour-sensation into three elements, while it recognises no such triple division in the nature of light, before it reaches the eye.

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Proceedings 1854-55
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 3 , 1857 , pp. 299 - 301
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1857

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