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Color problems : a practical manual for the lay student of color (1902)

Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes, 1842-1939, Stevens, Sara R. sgn, Holahan, Elizabeth Gibson, 1903-2002. fmo · New York: Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 38

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of light and pro-duces the sensation we call red; another set re-sponds most powerfully to waves of medium COLOR THEORIES 19 length, producing the sensation we call green;finally, the third set is strongly stimulated byshort waves, and generates the sensation knownas violet. (This might perhaps… … Red Green Blue R O Y G B V DIAGRAM ILLUSTKATING THE YOUNG-DELMHOLTZ THEORY OF COLORSENSATION. two other sets, but with less energy. The same istrue of the green and violet rays of the spectrum;they each act on all three sets of nerves, but mostpowerfully on those specially designed for…

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