Colour vision : $b Being the Tyndall Lectures delivered in 1894 at the Royal InstitutionAbney, William de Wiveleslie, Sir
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Colour vision : $b Being the Tyndall Lectures delivered in 1894 at the Royal Institution
Abney, William de Wiveleslie, Sir
Color vision
Besides cases of complete blindness due to the absence of one or two
sensations on the Young theory, we have other cases, as was said when
remarking on the percentage of people who are colour deficient, in
which one or even two sensations are only more or less deadened. It
has often been said that with the theory provisionally adopted, such
cases are difficult to class as red or green deficient. As far as my
own observations go, I have never found this difficulty. The luminosity
curves of such observers, combined with other indications, give a ready
means of classing them. The main difficulty to my mind is to state
what is normal colour vision, but, as I have found that the very large
majority of eyes give the same luminosity to colours as my own, I have
taken my own colour perception as normal. In numerous experiments which
Lord Rayleigh has made in matching orange by means of a mixture of
red and green, he has come across several who have apparently normal
vision, as they see colours correctly in every part of the spectrum,
and yet some require much less red mixed with the green to make a match
with the orange than do others. What is yellow to them is decidedly
green to the majority. This has been classed as another kind of normal
vision; but the luminosity curves show that it may be equally well due
to a deficiency in the green sensation, and which would require more
green to make the necessary match. The limits of the visible spectrum
to these persons, as far as my examination of their cases goes, are the
same as my own.
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