Author:William de Wiveleslie Abney

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William de Wiveleslie Abney
(1843–1920)

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British astronomer, chemist, photographer and military officer; author of photography manuals

This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB9 by the initials "W. de W. A."

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "W. de W. A."

Works

"Recent Advances in Photography" in Popular Science Monthly, 22 (January 1883)
Colour Measurement and Mixture (1891) (start transcription)
Colour Vision (1895) (start transcription)
Researches in Colour Vision and the Trichromatic Theory (1913) (start transcription)
"The threshold of vision for different coloured lights", in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Vol. 216 (January 1916)

Contribution to EB1911

"Photography," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)

Works about Abney

"Abney, William de Wiveleslie," in Men of the Time (eleventh edition), by Thompson Cooper, London: George Routledge and Sons (1884)
"Abney, William De Wiveleslie," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement, London: Oxford University Press (1927)
"Abney, Sir William de Wiveleslie," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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