Abstract
CAPTAIN ABNEY has long been known as the authority upon the scientific measurement of colour, and his researches have naturally involved a continual attention to the problems of colour-vision. This, too, he has made the subject of measurement in numerous ways, and in observations extending over many years. The results of his work in the domain of colour-vision were systematically expounded by him in the “Tyndall Lectures” of 1894, and have now been recast in their present form. The volume, which is sumptuously printed in double-leaded type, is illustrated not only by numerous cuts and process-blocks, but by an excellent chromolithographic spectrum chart of the typical cases of colour-vision. It is worthy of the reputation of the President of the Physical Society, and constitutes a distinct addition to the literature of physiological optics.
Colour Vision: being the Tyndall Lectures delivered in 1894 at the Royal Institution.
By W. de W. Abney (late R.E.) Pp. ix. + 231, 8vo. (London: Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., 1895.)
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T., S. Colour Vision: being the Tyndall Lectures delivered in 1894 at the Royal Institution. Nature 53, 124–125 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/053124a0
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