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IN response to Dr. Molloy's appeal, I may mention that a correspondent of Work having asked the reason for the colours in Benham's artificial spectrum top, I made, in the number for April 6, 1895, a suggestion which is practically the same as his explanation. This was that the optic nerves which according to the Young-Helmholtz theory produce the sensation of violet, are the most easily excited of the three sets, and that those producing the sensation of green, having the greatest inertia, are least easily excited and retain the impression for a longer time than the other two. In the number of the same journal for January 11, 1896, other phenomena were cited which might be explained by the same hypothesis.
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THURBURN, A. Subjective Images . Nature 69, 297 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069297b0
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