colour is not independent of its spatial Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Gordon L. Miller, "Introduction" to J. W. von Goethe The Metamorphosis of Plants, MIT press, Massachusetts 2009, page
Zur Farbenlehre by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1971, Studio Vista ltd edition, in English Goethe's colour theory by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 0 RatingsIn the 19th century, the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote his Theory of Colour (1810), a treatise on the nature and function of colour in relation to mood. Goethe’s work is poetic rather
J. K. Stieler, 1828. Goethe was born on August 28, 1749, in Frankfurt, Germany, to a lawyer and the daughter of the mayor of Frankfurt. He studied law in Leipzig and Strasbourg (France). Based on his early fame as a poet and novelist, Goethe, at age 26, was invited by the 18-year-old Duke of Sachsen-Weimar to join his court as an advisor.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s theory of color differs from Newton’s theory in the way it views color as a subjective and emotional experience, rather than an objective property of light. Goethe believed that color arose from the interaction between light and shadow, rather than the decomposition of white light into different colors of the
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