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"Newton's error.. was trusting math over the sensations of his eye." A trait very common amongst scientists. I tried to explain to my peers that you could see
by pepijndevos 11y ago
"Newton's error.. was trusting math over the sensations of his eye."
A trait very common amongst scientists. I tried to explain to my peers that you could see blue as lightened darkness and yellow and red as darkened light.
This makes a lot of sense perceptually, if you look at the sky and the sun as it transitions from night to day.
But all they had to say was newton and wavelengths and prisms. That stuff is all fine, but it does't talk about how we perceive colour.
- samuell 11y agoThis "lightening" and "darkening" you describe actually makes a lot of sense in terms of another way of connecting phycis and color, if we by "lightened" mean "higher color temperature", and for "darkened" "lower color temperature". (Color temperature according to Wikipedia is "temperature of an ideal black-body radiator that radiates light of comparable hue to that of the light source") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature