Psychological review - 1899 Author:James Mark Baldwin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PROFESSOR MÜLLER'S THEORY OF THE LIGHT-SENSE.1 BY CHRISTINE LADD FRANKLIN. Professor Whitman, in his address as Vice-Président of the Section of Physics, ... more »has given an admirable account of the present state of discussion upon the color-sense, as far as it regards the theories of Helmholtz and of Hering, and he has also devoted much time—more, perhaps, than they deserve !—to the modifications of those theories which have been made by Eb- binghaus and v. Kries. He has, very politely, refrained from anticipating what I have to say by giving an account of the subject of this paper, the theory of Professor G. E. Müller, a theory which, in my opinion, deserves to be put quite in the front rank of the various attempts that have been made to account for the color-process of the retina. I regret very much that this paper of Professor Whitman's was given before the physicists at an hour when it could not be listened to by the members of this Section, for it contained a very clear account of the recently discovered facts of color-vision, a knowledge of which, on your part, would perhaps have lent something more of interest to my discussion of the theory of Professor Müller. This theory is set forth in four papers which have been printed in 1896 and 1897 in the Zeitschrift für Psychologie und Physiologie der Sinnesorgane; these papers cover some two hundred and fifty large pages, and form therefore practically a book on the subject. The appearance of this volume, as it may properly be called, marks a real epoch in the long discussion that has been going on in the effort to reduce to order and system the phenomena of the sensation of light. Its author has shown a remarkable mastery of the immense mass of facts which have a bearing upon the case, and a no less remarkable keennessof log...« less