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No one could see the color blue until modern times

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27 Feb 2015 - As the delightful Radiolab episode "Colors" describes, ancient languages didn't have a word for blue — not Greek, not Chinese, not Japanese, ...

Could our ancestors see blue? Ancient people didn't ...

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2 Mar 2015 - Blue doesn't appear in Greek texts, the Koran, ancient Chinese ... The study found they could not pick out which one was different from the ...

Humans didn't even see the colour blue until modern times ...

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4 Mar 2015 - Humans didn't even see the colour blue until modern times, research ... on this discovery, and analysed ancient Icelandic, Hindu, Chinese, Arabic ... Well, obvious to us, at least, as you can see below. ... "It's not funny anymore.

Distinction of blue and green in various languages - Wikipedia

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Many languages do not distinguish between what in English are described as "blue" ... 9 Bantu; 10 American languages; 11 See also; 12 Sources; 13 References ... The ancient Egyptian word wadjet covers the range of blue, blue-green, and green. .... In traditional Welsh (and related languages), glas could refer to certain ...

Did No One Know Blue in Ancient Rome? - Freethought Blogs

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22 Apr 2015 - Until relatively recently in human history, “blue” didn't exist, not in the way .... Ancient Greeks and Romans could see and recognize blue, and ...

physiology - Could people perceive the color blue in ancient ...

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3 Mar 2015 - Might not be directly related to the claim, but as a general "cannot distinguish blue from ... So it seems that the ancient greeks did know the blue color. .... So we see that ancient people certainly could perceive the color blue.

Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World

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11 Jun 2010 - Did Ancient Greeks really lack a sense of colour, asks Alex Bellos. ... blue. Not Nick Clegg and the Tories, but William Gladstone and his concern about Homer's use of ... Can we see something for which we have no word? ... It turned out that it wasn't just the Ancient Greeks who never said the sky was blue.

The Wine-Dark Sea: Color and Perception in the Ancient ...

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3 Jan 2013 - The conspicuous absence of blue is not limited to the Greeks. ... The malleability of our color perception can be demonstrated with a simple ... trick) emphasize the power our cognitive functions have to suppress what we see.

Ancient Greek Color Vision | Serendip Studio

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27 Nov 2006 - As seen through the eyes of the Ancient Greeks, color perception is a very ... But we cannot assume that Hector's hair was blue, rather, in light of the ... did he indeed see honey as green, did he not see the ocean as blue, how ...

Why Isn't the Sky Blue? - Radiolab

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And blue always comes last. Jules Davidoff, professor of neuropsychology at the University of London, helps us make sense of the way different people see ...

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