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Colour-blindness and colour-perception (1909)

Edridge-Green, Frederick William, 1863-, University of Leeds. Library · London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner · leaf 108

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lmholtz modifying Young's theory of colour-perception, assumes that there are in the retina three sets of nerve-fibres, the stimulation of the first set giving rise to the sensation of red, of the second the sensation of green, and the third the sensation of violet. He assumes that all kinds of… … Fig. 12.— Diagram of the three primary colour-sensations. (Holmgren.) No. 1 curve corresponds to the red set of fibres. No. 2 to the green set, and No. 3 to the violet set. The heio-ht of the curve represents its proportional stimulation by

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