Open AccessColour blindness and the trichromatic theory of colour-vision
Publication year - 1910
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1910.0035
Subject(s) - trichromacy , casual , blindness , wish , optometry , psychology , aesthetics , sociology , art , medicine , computer science , color vision , political science , artificial intelligence , law , literature
Quite recently I have had the good fortune to examine in detail a case of red-blindness in a gentleman I will call X. The results of his observations with the spectrum I wish to place before the Royal Society, as they are confirmatory of the sensation curves of green and blue which I obtained with my own eyes. These curves are given in my paper read on May 18, 1905, to the Royal Society, and printed in the ‘Philosophical Transactions’ of that year. The examination of X lasted several half days, so that there was ample opportunity to repeat observations, an opportunity which is rarely afforded me by casual cases which from time to time I examine.