Sources of color science
By: selected and edited by David L. MacAdam.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Color vision; Physiological optics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Timaeus 68, by Plato.; title: On the soul II, 7, by Aristotle.; title: Sense and the sensible 2, 3, by Aristotle.; title: Meteorologica III, 2, 4, by Aristotle.; title: New theory about light and colors, by I. Newton.; title: Opticks, by I. Newton.; title: Theory of colors and vision, by G. Palmer.; title: Theory of light, by G. Palmer.; title: On the theory of light and colors, by T. Young.; title: Theory of compound colors, by H. G. Grassmann.; title: Theory of the perception of colors, by J. C. Maxwell.; title: The diagram of colors, by J. C. Maxwell.; title: Theory of compound colors, and the relations of the colors of the spectrum, by J. C. Maxwell.; title: On color vision, by J. C. Maxwell.; title: Physiological optics, by H. von Helmholtz.; title: Contribution to the physiology of visual sensations, by J. von Kries.; title: Chromatic adaptation, by J. von Kries.; title: Influence of adaptation on the effects produced by luminous stimuli, by J. von Kries.; title: The optics of trichromatic photography, by F. E. Ives.; title: Outline of a theory of color measurement for daylight vision, by E. Schrödinger.; title: Thresholds of color differences, by E. Schrödinger.; title: Some problems of visual perception, by J. Guild.; title: Interpretation of quantitative data in visual problems, by J. Guild.; title: Measurability of sensations of hue, brightness, or saturation, by L. F. Richardson.; title: Retinal structure and color vision, by S. Polyak.; title: Laminar pattern of the lateral geniculate nucleus considered in relation to color vision, by Sir W. E. Le Gros Clark.