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Theory of Colours by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Paperback / softback, 2015)

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Theory of Colours is a book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet's views on the nature of colours and how these are perceived by humans. Published in 1810, it contains detailed descriptions of phemena such as coloured shadows, refraction, and chromatic aberration. The work originated in Goethe's occupation with painting and mainly exerted an influence onto the arts (Philipp Otto Runge, J. M. W. Turner, the Pre-Raphaelites, Wassily Kandinsky). Although Goethe's work was rejected by physicists, a number of philosophers and physicists have concerned themselves with it, including Thomas Johann Seebeck, Arthur Schopenhauer (see: On Vision and Colors), Hermann von Helmholtz, Rudolf Steiner, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Godel, and Mitchell Feigenbaum. Goethe's book provides a catalogue of how colour is perceived in a wide variety of circumstances, and considers Isaac Newton's observations to be special cases. Unlike Newton, Goethe's concern was t so much with the analytic treatment of colour, as with the qualities of how phemena are perceived. Philosophers have come to understand the distinction between the optical spectrum, as observed by Newton, and the phemen of human colour perception as presented by Goethe-a subject analyzed at length by Wittgenstein in his exegesis of Goethe in Remarks on Colour.

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Publisher
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN-10
1515136876
ISBN-13
9781515136873
eBay Product ID (ePID)
216878438

Product Key Features

Author
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Format
Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound, Paperback
Language
English
Subject
The Arts: General & Référence

Additional Product Features

Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Translated by
Charles Lock Eastlake
Date of Publication
19/07/2015
Imprint
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Country of Publication
United States

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