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This volume presents an English translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s treatise on the nature and perception of color. The work includes a collection of systematic observations and experiments alongside the author’s theoretical challenges to Newtonian optics.

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GOETHE'S

following series of colours:—

Yellow-red.

Yellow.

Green.

Blue.

Blue-red.

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If we place a black band, or stripe, on white paper,26 the violet border will spread till it meets the yellow-red edge. In this case the intermediate black is effaced (as the intermediate white was in the last experiment), and in its stead a splendid pure red will appear.27 The series of colours will now

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