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    "author": "J.W. von Goethe",
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      "subtitle": "*Zur Farbenlehre* — Eastlake's 1840 translation",
      "blurb": "Charles Lock Eastlake's 1840 English translation of Goethe's *Zur Farbenlehre* (1810) — Goethe's life-work in natural science, his sustained alternative to Newton's *Opticks*. The phenomenological method applied to colour: colours arise from the polar interaction of light and darkness, not from a hidden composition within white light. The foundation-text of Steiner's later colour-philosophy."
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      "subtitle": "*Theory of Colours* — alternate edition",
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