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Colour and Colour Vision in Late Nineteenth Century British Sciences

Bridgman, GregoryUniversity of Cambridge2022

… and Robert Carter, and anthropologist W.H.R Rivers, I show that 19th century colour vision science was not narrowly confined to the quantification, measurement, and classification of colours. It was instead shaped by deeper metaphysical questions and wider political concerns. These questions …

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