author
F. W. (Frederick William) Edridge-Green
1863–1953
Best known for his work on colour vision, this British physician spent decades studying how people perceive light and colour. His books bring together medical research, practical testing methods, and a strong curiosity about how the eye and brain work.
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The Hunterian lectures on colour-vision and colour-blindness
by F. W. (Frederick William) Edridge-Green
About the author
Born in 1863, Frederick William Edridge-Green was a British physician and researcher whose name became closely linked with the study of colour vision and colour blindness. He trained in medicine and went on to build a career around one of the most debated vision problems of his day: how people see colour, and how colour defects should be tested.
He wrote extensively on these subjects, including Colour-blindness and Colour-perception and The Hunterian Lectures on Colour-Vision and Colour-Blindness. He was also known for designing instruments used to test colour perception, including a lantern test and a spectrometer, and his ideas were taken seriously enough to draw wide attention in ophthalmology and related fields.
Edridge-Green died in 1953. Though some of his theories were controversial, his long campaign to improve the understanding and testing of colour blindness made him a notable figure in the history of vision science.