Svetovoe zrenie [i.e. Color Vision ]

1951. KRAVKOV, S.V. Svetovoe zrenie [i.e. Color Vision ]. 176 pp. ill., including 4 colour plates on separate leaves. 4to, 237 x 157 mm, original illustrated publisher's boards. Moscow: Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1951. An important work by one of the founders of physiological optics-a scientific discipline that represents a synthesis of knowledge about the physiological, physical, and psychological principles that characterize the function of the eye. In this book he explains his theory of colour vision. Very rare, with OCLC locating copies only at the National Library of Medicine, LC and Harvard.