Color-coordinate system from a 13th century account of rainbows

Hannah E. Smithson; Philip S. Anderson; Greti Dinkova-Bruun; Robert A. E. Fosbury; Giles E. M. Gasper; Philip Laven; Tom C. B. McLeish; Cecilia Panti; Brian K. Tanner

doi:10.1364/JOSAA.31.00A341

Color-coordinate system from a 13th century account of rainbows

Hannah E. Smithson, Philip S. Anderson, Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Robert A. E. Fosbury, Giles E. M. Gasper, Philip Laven, Tom C. B. McLeish, Cecilia Panti, Brian K. Tanner

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Abstract

We present a new analysis of Robert Grosseteste’s account of color in his treatise De iride (On the Rainbow), dating from the early 13th century. The work explores color within the 3D framework set out in Grosseteste’s De colore [see J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 29, A346 (2012)], but now links the axes of variation to observable properties of rainbows.
We combine a modern understanding of the physics of rainbows and of human color perception to resolve the linguistic ambiguities of the medieval text and to interpret Grosseteste’s key terms.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	A341-A349
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics Image Science and Vision
Volume	31
Issue number	4
Early online date	16 Jan 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.31.00A341
Publication status	Published - 3 Mar 2014

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Color
Color vision
Colorimetry
Atmospheric optics

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