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Book On Colour Blindness      From the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

Download or read book On Colour Blindness From the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society written by William POLE (F.R.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

Download or read book Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London

Download or read book Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London written by Royal Society (London) and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colours and Colour Vision

Download or read book Colours and Colour Vision written by Daniel Kernell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colours are increasingly important in our daily life, but how did colour vision evolve? How have colours been made, used and talked about in different cultures and tasks? How do various species of animals see colours? Which physical stimuli allow us to see colours and by which physiological mechanisms are they perceived? How and why do people differ in their colour perceptions? In answering these questions and others, this book offers an unusually broad account of the complex phenomenon of colour and colour vision. The book's broad and accessible approach gives it wide appeal and it will serve as a useful coursebook for upper-level undergraduate students studying psychology, particularly cognitive neuroscience and visual perception courses, as well as for students studying colour vision as part of biology, medicine, art and architecture courses.

Book Nature

Download or read book Nature written by Sir Norman Lockyer and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Brief History of Colour Theory

Download or read book A Brief History of Colour Theory written by George Pavlidis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-05 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive introduction in to the various theories of colour and how they developed over the centuries and millennia. As colour is the perception of light by our brains, the book captures not only the physical phenomena but also psychological and philosophical aspects of colours. It starts with ancient studies of Greek philosophers and their insights into light and mirrors, then reviews the theory of colors in the middle ages in Europe and Middle East. The last big part of the book explains the theories of colours by modern scientists and philosophers, starting with Isaac Newton and ending colour schemes of modern digital pictures.

Book A Dictionary of Hallucinations

Download or read book A Dictionary of Hallucinations written by Jan Dirk Blom and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Hallucinations, second edition, is an alphabetical listing of issues pertaining to hallucinations and other misperceptions. They can be roughly divided into four categories: 1. Definitions of individual hallucinatory symptoms 2. Medical conditions and substances associated with the mediation of hallucinations 3. Historical figures who are known to have experienced hallucinations 4. Miscellaneous issues Each of the definitions of individual hallucinatory symptoms includes: a definition of the term its etymological origin the year of introduction (if known) a reference to the author or authors who introduced the term (if known) a description of the current use a brief explanation of the etiology and pathophysiology of the symptom at hand (if known) references to related terms references to the literature The second edition of A Dictionary of Hallucinations serves as a reference manual for neuroscientists, psychiatrists, psychiatric residents, psychologists, neurologists, historians of psychiatry, general practitioners, and academics dealing professionally with concepts of hallucinations and other sensory deceptions. This new edition provides updated information and references, and includes newly discovered hallucinations, bringing together contributions by other authorities within the field, with all the entries edited by Prof. Blom.

Book Philosophical Magazine

Download or read book Philosophical Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Color Vision

    Book Details:
  • Author : Werner G. K. Backhaus
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 2011-06-24
  • ISBN : 3110806983
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book Color Vision written by Werner G. K. Backhaus and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Color Ordered

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  • Author : Rolf G. Kuehni
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2008-01-09
  • ISBN : 0198040881
  • Pages : 407 pages

Download or read book Color Ordered written by Rolf G. Kuehni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-09 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since antiquity, people have searched for a way to understand the colors we see-what they are, how many there are, and how they can be systematically identified and arranged in some kind of order. How to order colors is not merely a philosophical question, it also has many practical applications in art, design, and commerce. Our intense interest in color and its myriad practical applications have led people throughout history to develop many systems to characterize and order it. The number of color order systems developed throughout history is unknown but ranges in the hundreds. Many are no longer used, but continue to be of historical interest. Despite wrong turns and slow progress, our understanding of color and its order has improved steadily. Although full understanding continues to elude us, it seems clear that it will ultimately come from research in neurobiology, perception and consciousness. Color Ordered is a comprehensive, in-depth compendium of over 170 systems, dating from antiquity to the present. In it, Rolf Kuehni and Andreas Schwarz present a history and categorization of color systems, describe each one using original figures and schematic drawings, and provide a broad review of the underlying theory. Included are a brief overview of color vision and a synthesis of the various systems. This volume is a unique and valuable resource for researchers in color vision, and visual perception, as well as for neuroscientists, art historians, artists, and designers.

Book Colour

    Book Details:
  • Author : Trevor Lamb
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1995-03-16
  • ISBN : 9780521499637
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Colour written by Trevor Lamb and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully illustrated collection of eight essays on colour for the non-specialist reader.

Book Nervous Conditions

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  • Author : Elizabeth Green Musselman
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2012-02-01
  • ISBN : 0791482065
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Nervous Conditions written by Elizabeth Green Musselman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nervous Conditions explores the role of the body in the development of modern science, challenging the myth that modern science is built on a bedrock of objectivity and confident empiricism. In this fascinating look into the private world of British natural philosophers—including John Dalton, Lord Kelvin, Charles Babbage, John Herschel, and many others—Elizabeth Green Musselman shows how the internal workings of their bodies played an important part in the sciences' movement to the center of modern life, and how a scientific community and a nation struggled their way into existence. Many of these natural philosophers endured serious nervous difficulties, particularly vision problems. They turned these weaknesses into strengths, however, by claiming that their well-disciplined mental skills enabled them to transcend their bodily frailties. Their adeptness at transcendence, they asserted, explained why men of science belonged at the heart of modern life, and qualified them to address such problems as unifying the British provinces into one nation, managing the industrial workplace, and accommodating religious plurality.

Book Outside Color

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  • Author : M. Chirimuuta
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2017-07-28
  • ISBN : 0262534576
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book Outside Color written by M. Chirimuuta and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An integrated study of the history, philosophy, and science of color that offers a novel theory of the metaphysics of color. Is color real or illusory, mind independent or mind dependent? Does seeing in color give us a true picture of external reality? The metaphysical debate over color has gone on at least since the seventeenth century. In this book, M. Chirimuuta draws on contemporary perceptual science to address these questions. Her account integrates historical philosophical debates, contemporary work in the philosophy of color, and recent findings in neuroscience and vision science to propose a novel theory of the relationship between color and physical reality. Chirimuuta offers an overview of philosophy's approach to the problem of color, finds the origins of much of the familiar conception of color in Aristotelian theories of perception, and describes the assumptions that have shaped contemporary philosophy of color. She then reviews recent work in perceptual science that challenges philosophers' accounts of color experience. Finally, she offers a pragmatic alternative whereby perceptual states are understood primarily as action-guiding interactions between a perceiver and the environment. The fact that perceptual states are shaped in idiosyncratic ways by the needs and interests of the perceiver does not render the states illusory. Colors are perceiver-dependent properties, and yet our awareness of them does not mislead us about the world. Colors force us to reconsider what we mean by accurately presenting external reality, and, as this book demonstrates, thinking about color has important consequences for the philosophy of perception and, more generally, for the philosophy of mind.

Book Foundations of Colour Science

Download or read book Foundations of Colour Science written by Alexander D. Logvinenko and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the science of colour from new perspectives and outlines results obtained from the authors’ work in the mathematical theory of colour This innovative volume summarizes existing knowledge in the field, attempting to present as much data as possible about colour, accumulated in various branches of science (physics, phychophysics, colorimetry, physiology) from a unified theoretical position. Written by a colour specialist and a professional mathematician, the book offers a new theoretical framework based on functional analysis and convex analysis. Employing these branches of mathematics, instead of more conventional linear algebra, allows them to provide the knowledge required for developing techniques to measure colour appearance to the standards adopted in colorimetric measurements. The authors describe the mathematics in a language that is understandable for colour specialists and include a detailed overview of all chapters to help readers not familiar with colour science. Divided into two parts, the book first covers various key aspects of light colour, such as colour stimulus space, colour mechanisms, colour detection and discrimination, light-colour perception typology, and light metamerism. The second part focuses on object colour, featuring detailed coverage of object-colour perception in single- and multiple-illuminant scenes, object-colour solid, colour constancy, metamer mismatching, object-colour indeterminacy and more. Throughout the book, the authors combine differential geometry and topology with the scientific principles on which colour measurement and specification are currently based and applied in industrial applications. Presents a unique compilation of the author’s substantial contributions to colour science Offers a new approach to colour perception and measurement, developing the theoretical framework used in colorimetry Bridges the gap between colour engineering and a coherent mathematical theory of colour Outlines mathematical foundations applicable to the colour vision of humans and animals as well as technologies equipped with artificial photosensors Contains algorithms for solving various problems in colour science, such as the mathematical problem of describing metameric lights Formulates all results to be accessible to non-mathematicians and colour specialists Foundations of Colour Science: From Colorimetry to Perception is an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, industry professionals and undergraduate and graduate students with interest in a mathematical approach to the science of colour.

Book The Science of Color

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven K. Shevell
  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • Release : 2003-07-11
  • ISBN : 0080523226
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book The Science of Color written by Steven K. Shevell and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2003-07-11 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Science of Color focuses on the principles and observations that are foundations of modern color science. Written for a general scientific audience, the book broadly covers essential topics in the interdisciplinary field of color, drawing from physics, physiology and psychology. This book comprises eight chapters and begins by tracing scientific thinking about color since the seventeenth century. This historical perspective provides an introduction to the fundamental questions in color science, by following advances as well as misconceptions over more than 300 years. The next chapters then discuss the relationship between light, the retinal image, and photoreceptors, followed by a focus on concepts such as color matching and color discrimination; color appearance and color difference specification; the physiology of color vision; the 15 mechanisms of the physics and chemistry of color; and digital color reproduction. Each chapter begins with a short outline that summarizes the organization and breadth of its material. The outlines are valuable guides to chapter structure, and worth scanning even by readers who may not care to go through a chapter from start to finish. This book will be of interest to scientists, artists, manufacturers, and students.