Abstract
A famous passage from Newton’s Opticks defines the visual process: ‘For the rays, to speak properly, are not coloured. In them there is nothing else than a certain Power and Disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that Colour. So Colours in the Object are nothing but a Disposition to reflect this or that Rays more copiously than the rest; in the Rays they are nothing but their Dispositions to propagate this or that motion into the Sensorium, and in the Sensorium they are Sensations of those motions under the Forms of Colours.’
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Verity, E. (1980). Colour and the Mind. In: Colour Observed. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16373-1_7
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