Colour vision, a discussion of the leading phenomena and their physical laws (1922)
Peddie, William · London, Arnold · leaf 69
rthat it might match the spectrum colour which lies betweenits position and the centre. In actual fact it is found that the colours obtained by mixtureof any comparatively near spectrum colours are in generalwhiter, and are never less white, than the correspondingintermediate spectrum colours.… … G.//- FiG. 3.—Spectiami Ciuve in the Colour Triangle. The assumption which Newton made when he drew thespectrum curve as part of a circle (\^dthout reference to funda-mentals), was that corresponding mixtures of any two equi-distant colours in the spectrum were less pure, i.e., werewhiter, than the…
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