 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - Science - 1798 - 772 pages
...peculiarity in my vision, till I accidentally observed the colour of the flower of the Geranium zonale by candle-light, in the Autumn of 1792. The flower...exact sky-blue by day; in candle-light, however, it wa* astonishingly changed, not having then any blue in it, but being what I called red, a colour which... | |
 | Phrenology - 1832 - 700 pages
...convinced of a peculiarity in my vision, till- 1 accidentally observed the colour of the Geranium zonale by candlelight, in the autumn of 1792. The flower...then any blue in it, but being what I called red, a colour which forms a striking contrast to blue. Not then doubting but that the change of colour would... | |
 | James Wheeler (of Prestwich.) - Manchester (England) - 1836 - 566 pages
...peculiarity in my vision till 1 accidentally observed the colour of the flower of the Geranium Zonale, by candle-light, in the autumn of 1792. The flower...but it appeared to me almost an exact sky-blue by dayi in candle-light, however, it was astonishingly changed, not having then any blue in it, but being... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...the flower of the Geranium zonale by candle light, in 1792. The flower was pink, but it appeared tome an exact sky-blue by day; in candle-light, however, it was astonishingly changed, not having any blue in it, but what I called red, a color which forms a striking contrast to blue." He believed... | |
 | 1845 - 404 pages
...my vision, until I accidentally observed the colour of the flower of the geranium by candle-light. The flower was pink, but it appeared to me almost...then any blue in it, but being what I called red. Not then doubting but that the change of colour would be equal to all, I requested some of my friends... | |
 | 1845 - 434 pages
...my vision, until I accidentally observed the colour of the flower of the geranium by candle-light. The flower was pink, but it appeared to me almost...then any blue in it, but being what I called red. Not then doubting but that the change of colour would be equal to all, I requested some of my friends... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...the flower of the Geranium zonale by candle light, in 1792. The flower was pink, but it appeared tome an exact sky-blue by day ; in candle-light, however, it was astonishingly changed, not having any blue in it, but what I called red, a color which forms a striking contrast to blue." He believed... | |
 | George Wilson - Color blindness - 1855 - 212 pages
...before, till, as he tells us, "I accidentally observed the colour of the flower of the geranium zonale by candlelight, in the autumn of 1792. The flower...then any blue in it, but being what I called red, a colour which fonns a strikrng contrast to blue."1 1 Manchester Mem., 1798, p. 29. K At a later period... | |
 | 1863 - 568 pages
...that he was colorblind, until by accident observing the color of the flower of the Geranium zonale by candle-light in the autumn of 1792. The flower was pink, but it appeared to him almost a sky-blue by day ; in candle-light, however, it was'astonishingly changed, not having then... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 1863 - 654 pages
...convinced he was colour-blind, until by accident observing the colour of the flower of the Geranium zonafo by candlelight in the autumn of 1792. The flower was pink, but it appeared to him almost a sky-blue by day : in candlelight, however, it was astonishingly changed, not having then... | |
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I accidentally observed the colour of the flower of the Geranium zonale by candlelight in the autumn of 1792. The flower was pink, but it appeared to me almost an exact sky-blue by day ; in candlelight, however, it was astonishingly changed, not having... 
