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Goethe's color theory. Arranged and edited by Rupprecht Matthaei.
Author
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
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Uniform title
Goethes Farbenlehre.
English
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
American edition translated and edited by Herb Aach.
Published/Created
New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold [1971]
Description
275 pages illustrations (some color), portraits 30 cm
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QC495.G4813 1971q Oversize
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Subject(s)
Color
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Colors
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Editor
Rupprecht, Matthaei
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Rupprecht, Matthaei
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Aach, Herb
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Translator
Aach, Herb
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Contains
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
Zur Farbenlehre.
English
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Notes
Translation of Goethes Farbenlehre.
"Charles Eastlake's 1820 translation of the 'didactic part' of the color theory. A complete facsimile reproduction from the edition of 1840": p. 209-275.
Bibliographic references
Bibliography: p. 205-206.
Contents
Contributions to optics
Announcement of a thesis on color
Why the contributions to optics were discontinued
The derivation of the color wheel from Goethe's prism experiments
The nature of prismatic colors
The reconstruction of Goethe's color wheel
The significance of Goethe's color wheel
Goethe's reflections on method
Precautions for the observer
The pure phenomenon
Quotations from the introduction to Die Propyläen
Introduction to the lectures on physics
The color theory
Preface to the first edition of 1810
Physiological colors
Physical colors
Entoptic colors
Chemical colors
General introspective views
Adjacent relationships
Sensual and moral effects of color
The eye
Confessions of the author
Letter to Josef Karl Stieler
Gentle Xenien VI
Legacy
List of Goethe's writings on color theory
Charles Eastlake's 1820 translation of the "didactic part" of the color theory.
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LCCN
77140180
OCLC
150613
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