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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

is to be considered as an elementary series, always developing itself in the same manner and in the same degrees; on the contrary, they can and should be resolved into their elements; and, in doing this, we become better acquainted with their nature and character.

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These elements then are (199, 200, 201)—

Yellow-red.Blue.
Yellow.Blue-red.
White.Black.
Blue.Yellow-red.
Blue-red.Yellow.

Here the surface itself, the original object,

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