Sources of Color Science

MacAdam, David L.; editor

ISBN 10: 0262130610 / ISBN 13: 9780262130615

Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, 1970

About this Item

Excerpts from works on vision, optics & color, from Plato to the modern era. First edition. Hardcover, full ochre cloth, red titling. Light wear to book; jacket shows minor edgewear, light creasing; ink name on flyleaf. Text clean; x, [2], 282 pages, indices, bibliographic notes; figures, equations. Size: Octavo.

Seller Inventory # p0760

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sources of Color Science
• Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0262130610
• ISBN 13: 9780262130615
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • History of Science
  • Physics

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Synopsis

First edition. MacAdam has chosen important articles on color from the earliest times to 1947. xii, 282 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

Review

"Spanning the years between 380 B.C. and A.D. 1949, this collection of important papers on the theory and physiology of color vision provides a selective panorama of the thought and research that have contributed to our present ability to handle color problems in industry and science. MacAdam is an eminent scientist in the fields of color vision and color measurement; scarcely another person exists who could have chosen a set of writings, some famous and some obscure, so well-calculated both to enlighten and to please. Here we find a roster of the great names in the field: Newton, Palmer, Young, Grassmann, Maxwell, von Helmholtz, von Kries, Ives, Schrödinger, Guild, Richardson, Polyak and Le Gros Clark. There are even modest contributions from Plato and Aristotle. The book is not always easy reading but, for those who employ color in their work or think about color or simply enjoy color and want to know something about its scientific history, this is a fine and thoughtfully selected volume of papers."
—Leonardo