SCHRÖDINGER ON COLORIMETRY

SCHRÖDINGER, ERWIN.

Farbenmetrik.

Berlin, Springer, 1920. 8vo. Bound in contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Zeitschrift für Physik", Bd. 1, 1920. Entire volume offered. Library stamp to front free end paper and title page, light wear to extremities. Pp. 201-214. [Entire volume: V, (1), 418 pp.].

First printing of Schrödinger paper on his little know research area: colorimetry.
"His first papers on relativity pointed to a second major field of interest. In addition to these works, and his early papers on relativity, Schrödinger made a detailed study, through both measurement and computation, of the metric of color space and the theory of color vision." (DSB).

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