Proving Colour Possible: Newton, Young, Maxwell

1861, the Royal Institution: Maxwell projects the first true colour photograph — a tartan ribbon — because Young said the eye counts three. Newton’s prisms to modern colour-vision science, in lectures and explainers.

Playlist by @color_plate_birth

14 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. The origins of colour — Cambridge University Library (the UL)
2. James Clerk Maxwell: The Greatest Victorian Mathematical Physicists - Professor Raymond Flood — Gresham College
3. Maxwell's Color Science - AAPT Winter 2021 — Jill Macko
4. Richard Feynman Explains Why MAXWELL Was The Greatest Physicist Who Ever Lived — Mathematically Proven
5. How Color Photography Was Proven to be Possible — Rational Thinker
6. How we see color - Colm Kelleher — TED-Ed
7. What is color? - Colm Kelleher — TED-Ed
8. How Do We Actually See Color? — Be Smart
9. Seeing Color — American Museum of Natural History
10. How Does a Photon Become a Film Photo? — SciShow
11. How Does Film ACTUALLY Work? (It's MAGIC) [Photos and Development] - Smarter Every Day 258 — SmarterEveryDay
12. Seeing - Color (Part One) / CAST Symposium — Arts at MIT
13. How do we see Colour? - Professor William Ayliffe — Gresham College
14. How Our Brains Process Colour | Earth Science — BBC Earth Science