Colour vision : being the Tyndall lectures delivered in 1894 at the Royal Institution / by W. de W. Abney.

  • Abney, William de Wiveleslie, Sir, 1843-1920.
Date:
1895
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    PREFACE. ' Y 'HE writer had for some years past, in conjunc- tion with General Festing, and recently as Secretary and Member of the Colour Vision Com- mittee of the Koyal Society, carried out a series of investigations on colour vision, and selected that subject when he was invited, in 1894, to deliver the Tyndall Lectures at the Royal Institution. The brief time allotted for these lectures—an hour on three successive Saturday afternoons—restricted the discussion of some aspects of the question, and confined its treatment in the main to those features most readily explicable by the physicist, and to bringing into notice the latest results which had been obtained from physical experiments. How far the