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
- Earliest possible date
- 1894
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- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
- Page extent
- 19 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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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 02 November 2024
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Date: 31st December 1894
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1894.0101
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Scientific papers published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society volume 56, 1894
1894 Reference number: PP/24
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