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HUDDART, Joseph (1741 – 1816)

HUDDART, Joseph (1741 – 1816)

1741 – 1816

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Guan Zuolin of Macao (fl. late 18th century) · Bonhams, London, 10 Nov 2011, lot 535 · Public domain

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1777 CE

#5832

An account of persons who could not distinguish colours.

HUDDART, Joseph (1741 – 1816)
HUDDART, Joseph (1741 – 1816)

First reliable record of color blindness. Written in the form of a letter to Joseph Priestley, who communicated it to the Royal Society. Huddart was a British hydrographer, engineer and inventor.