James Clerk Maxwell Quote

Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.


Maxwell, in a letter to William Thomson, The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862 (1990), p. 245.


Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.

Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.

Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.

Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.