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Méér dan steen voelen. Een poëtische bloemlezing door J.W. Schulte Nordholt & J. Wit.
Amst., Arbeiderspers, 1970.
67 p. Stiff wrs. 21 cm (Not in OiN; anthology; translations into Dutch of poems on blindness, blind people; Homer, Sophocles, Anthologia Graeca (3), P.C. Hooft, Revius, Huygens, Milton, Baudelaire, E. Dickinson et alii; publ. on occasion of the 75th anniversary of the 'Nederlandse Blindenbond')
An Account of Persons who could not distinguish Colours. In a Letter to Joseph Priestly.
London, W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1777. 4to. Extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Year 1777. Vol. 67 - Part I. Pp. 260-265. Clean and fine, broadmargined.
First apperarance of this paper, constituting the first reliable account of colour blindness.Usually Goethe or John Dalton - Huddart's case was cited in Dalton's paper of 1794 - is supposed to have discovered colourblindness. However, the English oculist Joseph Huddart was the discoverer of this phenomenon. The first physiological explanation of it does come from Goethe.Garrison & Morton: 5832.
