TY - BOOK AU - Goethe,Johann Wolfgang von AU - Eastlake,Charles Lock,Sir TI - Goethe's Theory of Colours AV - QC PY - 2015/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Color N1 - Translation of: Zur Farbenlehre; Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours; Release date is 2015-11-29; Produced by Annemie Arnst, Clare Graham & Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Goethe's Theory of Colours" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a book published in German in 1810. The poet challenges Isaac Newton's spectral theory, arguing that color arises from the interaction between light and darkness rather than from light alone. Through extensive observations of colored shadows, refraction, and prisms at varying distances, Goethe presents a phenomenological approach focused on human perception. His work profoundly influenced artists including Turner and Kandinsky, while sparking debate among physicists and philosophers about the nature of color itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50572 ER -