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  1. Terms used are defined in the Report on Colour Terminology (London: Physical Society, 1948).

  2. An account of the arguments leading to the C.I.E. system is given in Wright, W. D., “The Measurement of Colour” (Adam Hilger, Ltd., 1944).

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BOLTZ, C. Colour Systems and Atlases. Nature 166, 129–132 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/166129a0

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