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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

be as follows:—

Blue.

Blue-red.

Red.

Yellow-red.

Yellow.

216.

The yellow and blue, in the first case (214), can by degrees meet so fully, that the two colours blend entirely in green, and the order will then be,

Yellow-red.

Green.

Blue-red.

In the second case (215), under similar circumstances, we see only

Blue.

Red.

Yellow.

This appearance is best exhibited by refracting the bars

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