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THE following translation of the critical account given by von Helmholtz of the colour-theory of E. Hering, in the new edition of his Handbuch der Physiologischen Ohtik, commencing at page 376, has been made by Prof. Everett for NATURE. The translator aims at clearness rather than literal rendering, and three obvious misprints in the paragraph on the transformation of coordinates have been corrected. “Lambert's colour-pyramid” is another namefor the “cone of colour” described in Maxwell's papers and in § 1074 of Everett's “Deschanel.”
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Helmholtz on Hering's Theory of Colour. Nature 47, 365–368 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/047365e0
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