logologo-optometry

Colour vision : a discussion of the leading phenomena and their physical laws

Catalogue Number: 1004
Colour vision : a discussion of the leading phenomena and their physical laws
Category: Book
Sub-Category: Book of historical note
Author: PEDDIE William
Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1922
Time Period: 1900 to 1939
Place Of Publication/Manufacture: London
Publisher/Manufacturer: Edward Arnold and Co
Description Of Item: Original dark blue cloth, 208 pages, 30 diagrams in text
Historical Significance: Dr William Peddie (1851 - 1946), D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S.E. occupied the Harris Chair of Physics at University College, Dundee from 1907 to 1942. He was born in the island of Papa Westray, son of the Free Church minister there. He graduated B.Sc. at Edinburgh University in 1888, and in 1892 he was appointed lecturer in Natural Philosophy in Edinburgh University. He succeeded Professor J P Kuenan at Dundee. Dr Peddie was an active worker, both as lecturer and in research, frequently contributing to the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of which he was a Fellow, and to the proceedings of Edinburgh Mathematical Society. His researches were mainly in the fields of colour vision and molecular magnetism.
How Acquired: Donated by Mrs M Padman, widow of Tasmanuan Optometrist Eric Padman
Date Acquired: c 1985
Condition: Good
Location: Archive room. East wall. Books of historical note

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