John Dalton’s Anomalous Color Vision

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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John Dalton is far more famous for his work in atomic theory. But he wrote one of the first thorough descriptions of what he called “anomalous vision” – meaning that he realized he wasn’t perceiving color the same way as other people.

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0:36.5	Hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm Holly Fry.
0:45.4	And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
0:47.4	Tracy, I bet this happened to you.
0:50.0	I know it happened to me.
0:51.8	You must have had those moments as a child where you thought you were being very insightful.
0:55.6	I know I certainly did where I was like, how do I know that what I see is the same thing
0:59.8	as other people see?
1:01.3	Had this exact yes, yes.
1:04.0	I also asked my mom one time, I was like, mom, how do we know that what I see is green
1:10.4	is the same thing as what you see as green.
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