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An introduction to the study of colour vision (1915)

Parsons, John Herbert, Sir, 1868-1957 · Cambridge [Eng.] University Press; New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 238

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other equations for W, in each case mixing threeHghts from different parts of the spectrum in suitable proportions. By-eliminating W from each of these equations he obtained the sensation-values of 14 positions in the spectrum in terms of the sensation-valuesof the three standard colours, R, G, B.… … Red. Blu.e. Fig. 58. Clerk-Maxwells sensation curves. The dotted line is the algebraical sum ofthe ordinates at each point; it is not a true luminosity curve. Abscissae, wave-lengths of the prismatic spectrum of sunlight; ordinates, arbitrary scale. (Clerk-Maxwell.) Papers followed by J. J.…

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