Color Theory Wars 1: The Poet (Goethe) vs the Physicist (Newton)

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In Zur Farbenlehre (A Theory of Colours, or, A Doctrine of Colours) of 1810, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe worked to dismiss Newton’s findings of the nature of spectral light and sought a return to Aristotelian views of color. Why no love for Newton? This episode reviews Goethe's theories and how he introduced psychology to the understanding of human color perception.“A great mathematician [Newton] was possessed with an entirely false notion on the physical origin of colour….” - Excerpt from A Theory of Colours.Send us a text

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