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The Greeks were the first to start thinking as philosophers about vision and colors. They started inquiring into phenomena of which there was no previous knowledge. How could a doctrine of color vision be evolved, starting right from the beginning?
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Crone, R.A. (1999). Color theory in the ancient world. In: A History of Color. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0870-9_1
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