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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

his utere mecum.

PART I. PHYSIOLOGICAL COLOURS.
INTRODUCTION	xxxvii
	I.	Effects of Light and Darkness on the Eye	2
	II.	Effects of Black and White Objects on the Eye	5
	III .	Grey Surfaces and Objects	14
	IV .	Dazzling Colourless Objects	16
	V .	Coloured Objects	20
	VI .	Coloured Shadows	29
	VII .	Faint Lights	38
	VIII .	Subjective Halos	40
		Pathological Colours—Appendix	45
PART II. PHYSICAL COLOURS.

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