"Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive."

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InventorsAcademics from ScotlandPresbyteriansPhysicists from ScotlandMathematicians from Scotland
Original Language: English

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Maxwell, in a letter to William Thomson, The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862 (1990), p. 245.