Colour Vision: being the Tyndall Lectures delivered in 1894 at the Royal Institution

Abstract

CAPTAIN ABNEY has long been known as the authority upon the scientific measurement of colour, and his researches have naturally involved a continual attention to the problems of colour-vision. This, too, he has made the subject of measurement in numerous ways, and in observations extending over many years. The results of his work in the domain of colour-vision were systematically expounded by him in the “Tyndall Lectures” of 1894, and have now been recast in their present form. The volume, which is sumptuously printed in double-leaded type, is illustrated not only by numerous cuts and process-blocks, but by an excellent chromolithographic spectrum chart of the typical cases of colour-vision. It is worthy of the reputation of the President of the Physical Society, and constitutes a distinct addition to the literature of physiological optics. Colour Vision: being the Tyndall Lectures delivered in 1894 at the Royal Institution. By W. de W. Abney (late R.E.) Pp. ix. + 231, 8vo. (London: Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., 1895.)