Colour Vision in the Nineteenth Century

Paul D Sherman 1981 Bristol: Adam Hilger xiv + 233 pp price £35 (IOP members' price £26.25) This is a splendidly readable account of the development of the understanding of colour vision between 1800 and 1860. There are chapters on the work of Thomas Young, David Brewster, Hermann von Helmholtz, Hermann Günther Grassman and James Clerk Maxwell, as well as a chapter on colour blindness.