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Newton's colour circle and Palmer's “normal” colour space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2004

Gábor A. Zemplén
Gábor A. Zemplén*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy and History of Science (MTA TKI), Budapest University of Technology and Economics, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary http://hps.elte.hu/~zemplen
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zemplen@hps.elte.hu
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Taking the real Newtonian colour circle – and not the one Palmer depicts as Newton's – we don't have to wait 300 years for Palmer to say no to the Lockean aperçu about the inverted spectrum. One of the aims of this historical detour is to show that one's commitment about the “topology” of the colour space greatly affects Palmer's argument.

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Continuing Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , February 2004, pp. 166 - 168
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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