"Based on the first English edition of 1854 as translated from the first French edition of 1839, De la loi du contraste simultane des couleurs Introduction: M.E. Chevreul's life, works, and influence ...

I beg the reader never to forget when it is asserted of the phenomena of simultaneous contrast, that one color placed beside another receives such a modification from it that this manner of speaking ...

Our eyes don't work like a camera set to "manual" mode. They're set to "automatic everything" and you can't turn it off. In fact, the very means we use to identify a colour depend on the surrounding ...