Maxwell, Sutton and the Birth of Color Photography: A by Jordi Cat (auth.)

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Either one of them is a mixture of the other three, or a mixture of two of them can be found, identical with a mixture of the other two. 4th. 4 The choice of primary colors in Young’s theory of the physiology of vision were red, green and violet. 1057/9781137338310 Photographic Illustrations  ether, which excited primarily—but not exclusively—one of three kinds of nervous fibers in the retina. The distinctive novelty of the Maxwell– Young theory resided in set of primary colors it postulated: yellow was no longer a primary color sensation.

Evans, Evans 1961a and 1961b.  Detail also carried gender connotation, against the simplicity, restraint and rationality of masculine patterns; see Schor 1987.  See Cat forthcoming, Part 1. 1057/9781137338310 4 What Objectivity? Whose Objectivity? Automatic Objectivity Is Social and Scientific Abstract: This chapter examines Maxwell’s photographic model of color composition and perception in relation to attempts to articulate and meet scientific standards of fixity and objectivity. The chapter discusses preoccupations with the distinction between the objective and the subjective, the physical and the mental, in research on perception, or physiological optics.

After Maxwell returned to Cambridge in 1871 he became secretary of the Modelling Club, in the department of Mathematics, presided by Arthur Cayley. Another role for the material resources (I think symbolic too) deserves attention. 17 Maxwell’s childhood experience and play with spinning toys such as a diabolo, curling stones and wheels of life instilled in him a preference and talent for exploring and using spinning systems, phenomena, concepts and procedures: the spinning top, Saturn’s rings, engines’ governors, molecular vortices in the ether, spinning electrical flows and electric coils, the lenticular zoetrope, etc.

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