Rob DeSalle, "A Natural History of Color: The Science Behind What We See and How We See it" (Pegasus Books, 2020)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Different Levels of Color
I was just wondering how the definition of color color between these sort of disciplines difference and compliments our understanding of it. That's a really excellent point you put across in the book so clearly that the color can be defined in different levels through physics and then going to human physiology and psychology and philosophy and anthropology. I think, I'm physically the definitions of color pretty straightforward. The definition of color at the physical level is, I would say pretty straightforward, but at the emotional, cultural level, it becomes really, really complex. And we have evolved to proceed color in a particular physical way.
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