Colour sector

Description

Three colour sectors or disks, devised by Professor James Clerk Maxwell for the study of colour vision, made by James Bryson of Edinburgh

Museum reference

T.1999.363.2

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Colour sector

Production information

Bryson, James Mackay, 1824 - 1894, Maker
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe
Purdie, T., 1855 (fl.), Preparator
Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831 - 1879, Designer

Date

1855

Materials

Paper, Metal

Associations

devised the object: Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831 - 1879
Forbes, James David, 1809 - 1868

Exhibitions

• Enquire (08 Jul 2016)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Scotland Creates: National Museum of Scotland
  National Museum of Scotland

• Shaping Our World (29 Jul 2011 - 03 Aug 2014)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Sara Stevenson, Light from the Dark Room, 1995, p. 18 - 21

Martin Goldman, The Demon in the Aether: The Story of James Clerk Maxwell, illustrated

James Clerk Maxwell, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1857, 'On a dynamical Top, for exhibiting the phenomena of the motion of a system of invariable form around a fixed point, with some suggestions as to the Earth's motion'

R.T.Guntter, Early Science in Cambridge, 1937, p. 91

L. Campbell and W. Garnett, Life of James Clerk Maxwell, 1882, p. 499 - 501 and 287 - 288

C.W.F. Everett in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 9, 1971, p. 200 - 226

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