A History of Color: The Evolution of Theories of Lights and Color - Rilegato

Crone, Robert A.

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ISBN 10: 0792355393 ISBN 13: 9780792355397

Casa editrice: Kluwer Academic Pub, 1999

Riassunto

Written for ophthalmologists, optometrists and other who are interested in visual science and its history, this book surveys color theories between 500 BC and 2000 AD. Chapters cover the ancient Greek ideas of vision and color; the contributions of Arabic science; the Scientific Revolution from Kepler to Newton; the early history of the three-color hypothesis; the trichromatic theory and defective color vision; Goethe's, Schopenhauer's and Hering's theories; and modern color physiology. Reprinted from Documenta Ophthalmologia , Volume 96, No. 1-3 (1999). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Contenuti

I. Color Theory in the Ancient World. II. The Middle Ages. III. The Renaissance. IV. Light, Color and Vision During the Scientific Revolution. V. Newton. VI. From Newton to Young. VII. Classical-Romantic Colour Theory in Germany. VIII. Disorders of Color Vision. IX. The Mixing of Color. X. The Trichromatic Theory. XI. Hering's Four-Color Theory and the Zone Theories. XII. Anatomy and Physiology of the Visual System Between 1600 and 1900. XIII. The Twentieth Century. Appendix and Synopsis: What is Color? Notes. References. Index.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Kluwer Academic Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0792355393
• ISBN 13: 9780792355397
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 282
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile