Young-Helmholtz three-colour theory

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Young-Helmholtz three-colour theory

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colour vision and mixing

In human eye: Young-Helmholtz theory
It was the phenomena of colour mixing that led Thomas Young in 1802 to postulate that there are three photoreceptors, each one especially sensitive to one part of the spectrum; these photoreceptors were thought to convey messages to the brain, and, depending on…
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work of Young

In Thomas Young
…theory is known as the Young–Helmholtz three-colour theory.
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