_The Royal Institution_
Capt. W. De W. Abney, C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S.,
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Captain W De W Abney wrote Colour Vision, a set of lectures given at the Royal Institution in London in 1894. They were the Tyndall Lectures for that year. William Wood and Company published the book in New York, with a colored plate and many diagrams. Abney was a Royal Engineers officer and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Abney had studied colour vision for years with General Festing and for a Royal Society committee. The lectures begin with the eye itself, then take up simple colours and their mixture. He sets the Young and Hering theories side by side. Many chapters treat colour blindness: its forms, its tests, and cases caused by tobacco and disease. The Holmgren wool test gets a chapter of its own.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Capt. W. De W. Abney, C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S., |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 271 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |