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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.

 Photo of James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell 
(13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879)


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Table of Contents   
Item
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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.
275
2
Investigation of the Law of the Perception of Colour
279
6
On a Graphical Method of Exhibiting the Relations of Colours
279
6
Further consideration of the Diagram of Colours
282
9
Theory of the Perception of Colour
283
10
Testimony of the Colour-blind with respect to Colour
284
11
Note I.: On different Methods of Exhibiting the Mixtures of Colours.
(1.) Mechanical Mixture of Coloured Powders.
288
15
(2.) Mixture of differently-coloured Beams of Light by Superposition on an Opaque Screen.
289
16
(3.) Union of Coloured Beams by a Prism so as to form one Beam.
290
17
(4.) Union of two beams by means of a transparent surface, which reflects the first and transmits the second.
290
17
(5.) Union of two beams by means of a doubly-refracting Prism.
291
18
(6.) Successive presentation of the different Colours to the Retina.
291
18
(7.) Presentation of the Colours to be mixed one to each Eye.
293
20
Note II.: Results of Experiments with Mr Hay's Papers, at Cambridge, November 1854.
293
20
Note III.: On the Theory of Compound Colours.
294
21
Note IV.: Description of the Figures. Plate VI.
298
25
Plate VI, Figures 1-6.
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26

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