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Color-blindness : its dangers and its detection (1880)

Jeffries, B. Joy (Benjamin Joy), 1833-1915 · Boston : Houghton, Osgood and Company · leaf 59

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r hand, sufficiently excite the perceptive organs of green in the red- blind ; and it therefore seems to them black. Spectral yel- low seems to them a green ^•saturated" and intensely luminous ; and, as it constitutes the precisely saturated and very intense shade of that color, it can be… … the other primitive colors : it then appears, consequently, like a more intense but whitish shade of the same color as yellow and red. The greatest intensity of light in the spec- trum, according to Seebeck's observations, does not appear to the red-blind to be in the yell-ow region, as it does to…

Color Vision Defects

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