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Paper, 'Measurement of colour produced by contrast' by William de Wiveleslie Abney

Reference number: PP/24/17

Date: 1894

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Abney writes: 'No definite measurements, as far as I am aware, have been made of the change in colour produced by contrast, except in a small work of my own in which results were given in terms of colour mixtures, and earlier by a brief reference in a work by Rood, in which the change produced was endeavoured to be matched by means of rotating disks.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Optics

Received 5 June 1894 / 9 June 1894. Read 21 June 1894.

A version of this paper was published in volume 56 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Measurement of colour produced by contrast'.

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PP/24/17
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1894
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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19 pages
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William de Wiveleslie Abney

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William de Wiveleslie Abney, Paper, 'Measurement of colour produced by contrast' by William de Wiveleslie Abney, 1894, PP/24/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_24_17/paper-measurement-of-colour-produced-by-contrast-by-william-de-wiveleslie-abney, accessed on 14 October 2024

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