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This book presents the most complete translation to date of Erwin Schrödinger’s work on colorimetry. In his work Schrödinger proposed a projective geometry of color space, rather than a Euclidean line-element. He also proposed new (at the time) colorimetric methods – in detail and at length - which represented a dramatic conceptual shift in colorimetry. Schrödinger shows how the trichromatic (or Young-Helmholtz) theory of color and the opponent-process (or Hering) theory of color are formally the same theory, or at least only trivially different. These translations of Schrödinger’s bold concepts for color space have a fresh resonance and importance for contemporary color theory.
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Keith K. Niall Editor
Erwin Schrödinger’s Color Theory Translated with Modern Commentary
Erwin Schr€ odinger’s Color Theory
Keith K. Niall Editor
Erwin Schr€odinger’s Color Theory Translated with Modern Commentary
Editor Keith K. Niall Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ISBN 978-3-319-64619-0 ISBN 978-3-319-64621-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-64621-3
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Many thanks to Harry Blom, Jennifer Satten, and Ramon Khanna, Springer editors, for their effort and also to Bettina Loycke (Senior Rights Manager, Rights and Licenses for Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA) for facilitating permissions for the translations of Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 6. The original articles for those chapters are as follows: Schr€ odinger, E. Grundlinien einer Theorie der Farbenmetrik im Tagessehen. I. Mitteilung. Annalen der Physik, vierte Folge, 63(21), 397–426 (1920). Schr€ odinger, E. Grundlinien einer Theorie der Farbenmetrik im Tagessehen. II. Mitteilung. Annalen der Physik, vierte Folge, 63(21), 427–456 (1920b). Schr€ odinger, E. Grundlinien einer Theorie der Farbenmetrik im Tagessehen. III. Mitteilung. Annalen der Physik, vierte Folge, 63(22), 481–520 (1920c). Schr€ odinger, E. Theorie der Pigmente von gr€oβter Leuchtkraft. Annalen der Physik, vierte Folge, 62(15), 603–622 (1920d). Reproduced with permission from Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Copyright © 2006, as renewed. (Contra