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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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Table of Contents

GOETHE'S


IX.	Dioptrical Colours	59
X.	Dioptrical Colours of the First Class	60
XI .	Dioptrical Colours of the Second Class —Refraction	74
	Subjective Experiments	80
XII.	Refraction without the Appearance of Colour	80
XIII.	Conditions of the Appearance of Colour	81
XIV.	Conditions under which the Appearance of
	Colour increases	86
XV.	Explanation of the foregoing Phenomena	90
XVI.	Decrease of the Appearance of Colour	100
XVII.	Grey Objects displaced by Refraction	103
XVIII.	Coloured Objects displaced by Refraction	106
XIX.	Achromatism and Hyperchromatism	118
XX.	Advantages of Subjective Experiments —Transition to the Objective	123

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