Year: | 1877 | |
Short description: | Magnus's treatise on the evolution of colour perception | |
Medium description: | Hugo Magnus's treatise on the evolution of colour perception. Claimed that the expansion of the lexical set of colour term was due to the increased sesitivity of the retina over the evolution of man and that only in the last few millennia was the retina capable of discriminating beyond shades of light and dark. | |
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