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EXPERIMENTS
ON COLOUR,
AS PERCEIVED BY THE EYE,
WITH
REMARKS ON COLOUR BLINDNESS.
BY
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL, B.A.,
TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
FROM THE
TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH, VOL. XXI., PART II.
EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY BY NEILL AND COMPANY.
MDCCCLV.
James Clerk
Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879)
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title page: "Experiments on
Colour as Perceived by the Eye, with Remarks on Colour-Blindness"
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XVIII - Experiments on Colour, as perceived by the
Eye, with remarks on Colour-Blindness.
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Investigation
of the Law of the Perception of Colour
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On
a Graphical Method of Exhibiting the Relations of Colours
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279
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Further
consideration of the Diagram of Colours
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Theory
of the Perception of Colour
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Testimony
of the Colour-blind with respect to Colour
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Note I.: On different Methods of Exhibiting the
Mixtures of Colours.
(1.) Mechanical Mixture of Coloured
Powders.
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288
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(2.) Mixture of differently-coloured Beams of
Light by Superposition on an Opaque Screen.
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289
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(3.) Union of Coloured Beams by a Prism so as
to form one Beam.
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290
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(4.) Union of two beams by means of a
transparent surface, which reflects the first and transmits the second.
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(5.) Union of two beams by means of a
doubly-refracting Prism.
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(6.) Successive presentation of the different
Colours to the Retina.
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(7.) Presentation of the Colours to be mixed
one to each Eye.
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Note II.: Results of Experiments with Mr Hay's
Papers, at Cambridge, November 1854.
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Note III.: On the Theory of Compound Colours.
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Note IV.: Description of the Figures. Plate VI.
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Plate VI, Figures 1-6.
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