Colour vision : being the Tyndall lectures delivered in 1894 at the Royal Institute
Colour vision, the Tyndall lectures given in 1894 at the Royal Institution and published in London in 1895 by Sampson Low, Marston, by the scientist Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney, is a technical treatise on how the eye perceives colour. Its pictures are plain black-and-white graphs of luminosity and spectral response curves plotted on grids, showing how red-blind and green-blind vision differ from normal sight; a designer might take from them the clean, rule-based grid layouts and the sweeping curved lines.
