 | Trevor Lamb, Janine Bourriau - 1995 - 250 pages
...particular part of the visible spectrum. In 1801 he said: As it is almost impossible to conceive each sensitive point of the retina to contain an infinite...that each of the particles is capable of being put into motion more or less forcibly by undulations differing less or more from perfect unison. Each sensitive... | |
 | Richard J. Weiss - 1996 - 200 pages
...on to consider color perception. In his own words: Now, as it is almost impossible to conceive each sensitive point of the retina to contain an infinite...the three principal colours, red, yellow, and blue, of which the undulations are related in magnitude nearly as the numbers 8, 7 and 6; and that each of... | |
 | Remigio Russo - 1996 - 340 pages
...on to consider color perception. In his own words: Now, as it is almost impossible to conceive each sensitive point of the retina to contain an infinite...the three principal colours, red, yellow, and blue, of which the undulations are related in magnitude nearly as the numbers 8, 7 and 6; and that each of... | |
 | Alex Byrne, David R. Hilbert - 1997 - 522 pages
...relative extents of excitation of three types of sensors. "As it is almost impossible to conceive each sensitive point of the retina to contain an infinite...in perfect unison with every possible undulation," he noted, "it becomes necessary to suppose the number limited, for instance, to the three primary colors."... | |
 | Donald D Hoffman - 2000 - 324 pages
...announced in his Bakerian Lecture to the Royal Society in 1802: As it is almost impossible to conceive each sensitive point of the retina to contain an infinite...the three principal colours, red, yellow, and blue. This brilliant insight was then largely forgotten until Helmholtz resurrected it much later in that... | |
 | Jozef Cohen - 2001 - 256 pages
...constitution of this substance. Now, as it is almost impossible to conceive of such a sensitive point on the retina to contain an infinite number of particles,...number limited; for instance, to the three principal colors, red, yellow and blue. Young held this strict conception of trichromacy for only a few months.... | |
 | Bevil R. Conway - 2002 - 166 pages
...it resolved one of the most profound problems in color. "As it is almost impossible to conceive each sensitive point of the retina to contain an infinite...number limited, for instance, to the three principal colors, red, yellow, and blue, of which the Figure 1.1 Young and Helmholtz proposed color was subserved... | |
 | Lisa M. Dolling, Arthur F. Gianelli, Glenn N. Statile - 2003 - 762 pages
...be dependent on the constitution of this substance. Now, as it is almost impossible to conceive each sensitive point of the retina to contain an infinite...the three principal colours, red, yellow, and blue, of which the undulations are related in magnitude nearly as the number 8, 7, and 6; and that each of... | |
 | Alexander Wood - 1983 - 392 pages
...kind of nerve fibre for each possible hue. He writes: Now, as it is almost impossible to conceive each sensitive point of the retina to contain an infinite...the three principal colours, red, yellow and blue, of which the undulations are related in magnitude nearly as the numbers 8, 7, and 6; and that each... | |
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Now, as it is almost impossible to conceive each sensitive point of the retina to contain an infinite number of particles, each capable of vibrating in perfect unison with every possible undulation... 
