Contributor(s): Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Translator: Charles Lock Eastlake 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.
Philosophers have come to understand the distinction between the optical spectrum, as observed by Newton, and the phenomenon of human colour perception as presented by Goethe-a subject analyzed at length by Wittgenstein in his exegesis of Goethe in Remarks on Colour..
Unlike Newton, Goethe\'s concern was not so much with the analytic treatment of colour, as with the qualities of how phenomena are perceived.
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.
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.
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The work originated in Goethe\'s occupation with painting and mainly exerted an influence onto the arts (Philipp Otto Runge, J.
Published in 1810, it contains detailed descriptions of phenomena such as coloured shadows, refraction, and chromatic aberration.
Contributor(s): Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Translator: Charles Lock Eastlake 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
