Research Catalog

Title

Sources of color science, selected and edited by David L. MacAdam.

Author

MacAdam, David L., 1910-

Publication

Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press [1970]

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Details

Description

x, 282 p. illus. (part col.); 24 cm.

Subjects

• Medicine > Sight > Colour vision Readings
• Color vision
• Physiological optics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Timaeus 68, by Plato.--On the soul II, 7, by Aristotle.--Sense and the sensible 2, 3, by Aristotle.--Meteorologica III, 2, 4, by Aristotle.--New theory about light and colors, by I. Newton.--Opticks, by I. Newton.--Theory of colors and vision, by G. Palmer.--Theory of light, by G. Palmer.--On the theory of light and colors, by T. Young.--Theory of compound colors, by H. G. Grassmann.--Theory of the perception of colors, by J. C. Maxwell.--The diagram of colors, by J. C. Maxwell.--Theory of compound colors, and the relations of the colors of the spectrum, by J. C. Maxwell.--On color vision, by J. C. Maxwell.--Physiological optics, by H. von Helmholtz.--Contribution to the physiology of visual sensations, by J. von Kries.--Chromatic adaptation, by J. von Kries.--Influence of adaptation on the effects produced by luminous stimuli, by J. von Kries.--The optics of trichromatic photography, by F. E. Ives.--Outline of a theory of color measurement for daylight vision, by E. Schrödinger.--Thresholds of color differences, by E. Schrödinger.--Some problems of visual perception, by J. Guild.--Interpretation of quantitative data in visual problems, by J. Guild.--Measurability of sensations of hue, brightness, or saturation, by L. F. Richardson.--Retinal structure and color vision, by S. Polyak.--Laminar pattern of the lateral geniculate nucleus considered in relation to color vision, by Sir W. E. Le Gros Clark.

Call Number

PEY (MacAdam, D. L. Sources of color science)

ISBN

0262130610

LCCN

77110231 //r92

OCLC

115810

Author

MacAdam, David L., 1910- Compiler

Title

Sources of color science, selected and edited by David L. MacAdam.

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press [1970]

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed Term

Medicine Sight Colour vision Readings

Research Call Number

PEY (MacAdam, D. L. Sources of color science)