Young's Trichromatic Theory“杨的三色理论”

The next major contribution to the understanding of color vision came from Thomas Young (1773-1829). Young thought it unlikely that the eye possessed a different receptor for every visible color and proposed that color vision was derived from the relative stimulation of just three receptors.

下一个对于颜色视觉认识的重大贡献，来自于托马斯·杨（1773-1829）。“杨”认为眼睛不可能对每一种可见的颜色都具有不同的感受器，并提出色觉仅仅来自三个受体的相对刺激。

Young's trichromatic theory was not confirmed experimentally until almost fifty years later when Maxwell carried out an elegant series of experiments in which he used a spinning disc to produce additive mixtures of various combinations of colors. These experiments showed that virtually any color could be produced by simply adding together three primary colors in different proportions.

“杨”的三色理论并没有实验去证明，直到近五十年后，麦斯威尔进行了一系列优雅的实验，他用一系列有不同颜色组合的原盘进行旋转产生颜色。这些实验表明，几乎所有的颜色都可以通过简单地将三种不同颜色的原色相加而产生。