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Color essays.

D L MacAdam
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Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary defines "essay" first as "an effort to do something; attempt; trial." Only second it is defined as "a literary composition, analytical or interpretative, dealing with its subject from a more or less limited or personal standpoint." This article is an essay (second meaning) about a few essays (first meaning) that have been made to understand color. Genesis, Aristotle, Plato, Newton, Palmer, Young, Helmholtz, Maxwell and Frederic Ives are represented.

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D L MacAdam. 1975. Color essays.. https://doi.org/10.1364/josa.65.000483

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