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John Dalton was born on September 5th or 6th, 1766, or 259 years ago today, or possibly yesterday on the day this episode is coming out.

John Dalton was a physicist and a chemist, but he's also known for his discoveries related

to color vision and color vision anomalies.

Our episode on John Dalton is today's Saturday classic, and it originally came out on

January 20th, 2021. Enjoy. Welcome to Stuff

You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio. Hello and welcome to the

podcast. I'm Holly Fry. And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

Tracy, I bet this happened to you. I know it happened to me. Like, you must have had those moments as a child where you thought you were being very insightful. I know I certainly did where I was like, how do I know that what I see is the same thing as other people see?

I had this exact, yes, yes.

I also asked my mom one time.

I was like, Mom, how do we know that what I see is green is the same thing as what you see as green?

And my mom, the stay-at-home mom with two little children, did not always have a lot of patience for weird questions.

And she was like, it's the same.

I'm not trying to drag my mom in any way.

My mom was like very supportive of our creativity and attentive to our.

But yeah, this was a case where I like, I just asked her in a question.

She was not prepared for question time.

Here is the thing.

I asked the same question of my father, who I did not know, and I don't know that he knew at the time, did not see color the way

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