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His color theory is quite flawed. Keep away from it if you don't want to waste your time. He was a much better poet than scientist.
by jansan 7y ago
His color theory is quite flawed. Keep away from it if you don't want to waste your time. He was a much better poet than scientist.
- keiferski 7y agoIt isn't flawed per se, it's simply focused more on human perception than a scientific analysis of light itself. Goethe's book provides a catalogue of how colour is perceived in a wide variety of circumstances, and considers Isaac Newton's observations to be special cases.[3] Unlike Newton, Goethe's concern was not so much with the analytic treatment of colour, as with the qualities of how phenomena are perceived. Philosophers have come to understand the distinction between the optical spectrum, as observed by Newton, and the phenomenon of human colour perception as presented by Goethe. ... his aesthetic approach did not lend itself to the demands of analytic and mathematical analysis used ubiquitously in modern Science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours Wittgenstein also wrote an interesting book about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remarks_on_Colour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remarks_on_Colour