46GOETHE’S THEORY OF COLOURS
An influential book on color by Goethe published in German in 1810 and translated into English by Charles Eastlake in 1840
In 1810 renowned poet, playwright, novelist, and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) published his seminal work on color, Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours). Although the book was somewhat controversial in his times, it has been highly esteemed by many, including J.M.W. Turner, Wassily Kandinsky, Novalis, Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Gödel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Hermann von Helmholtz.
Goethe’s treatise is a step-by-step exploration of color phenomena through an extensive sequence ...
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