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The republic of color : science, perception, and the making of modern America / Michael Rossi.
By: Rossi, Michael (Historian of science) [author]
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BookPublisher: Chicago, Illinois ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 313 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), facsimiles ; 24 centimetres.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226651729 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): Color vision -- Research -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Color vision -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Color -- Research -- United States -- History | Science -- Social aspects -- United States -- History | United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918
Contents:
Introduction : Cloven tongues of fire -- Modern chromatics : Ogden Rood and the wrong-workings of the eye -- From chemistry to phanerochemistry : Charles Sanders Peirce and the semiotic of color -- Pathologies of perception : Benjamin Joy Jeffries and the invention of color blindness -- Colors and cultures : evolution, biology, and society -- The pragmatic physiology of color vision : Christine Ladd-Franklin and the "evolutionary theory" of color -- Small lies for big truths : standards, values, and color terms -- The logical and the genetic : bodies, work, and formal color notations -- Conclusion : Talking about color.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | Science Museum London Dana Research Centre Library: Books | Science & Technology Studies Collection | 535.6:93 ROSSI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2402439301 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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