When1: 1801
When2: 1807
Who: Thomas Young [Young, Thomas]
What: physician/physicist/Egyptologist
Where: Britain
works\ Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts [1807]
Detail: He lived 1773 to 1829, invented Young's modulus, developed light-wave theory, and analyzed light-interference patterns [1801]. Prism colors add to make brightness. Different colored-light ratios make all intermediate colors [1801]. Eye lens accommodates to different distances by changing anterior surface curvature. Color vision mixes signals from three retinal channels.
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