title: Color essays.
abstract: Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary defines "essay" first as "an effort to do something; attempt; trial." Only second it is defined as "a literary composition, analytical or interpretative, dealing with its subject from a more or less limited or personal standpoint." This article is an essay (second meaning) about a few essays (first meaning) that have been made to understand color. Genesis, Aristotle, Plato, Newton, Palmer, Young, Helmholtz, Maxwell and Frederic Ives are represented.
mesh_terms: D003116:Color; D003118:Color Perception; D003124:Colorimetry; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D055095:Optics and Photonics / Q000266:history*; D010781:Photography; D009626:Terminology as Topic