Theory of Colours
Goethe's 1810 phenomenological treatise opposing Newton's particle-and-spectrum theory — colour as the dynamic of light-and-darkness at their boundaries (the Urphänomen). Directly underlies Steiner's colour lectures (GA 291) and the anthroposophical curative use of veiled colour. Charles Lock Eastlake's 1840 translation.
Source context· Western European stream · Anglo-German cultural age
- Stream
- Western European
- Cultural age
- Anglo-German (5th post-Atlantean cultural age)
- Composed
- c. 1810 CE
- 1Theory of Colours (Zur Farbenlehre, full text) — Zur Farbenlehre — Eastlake's 1840 translation
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.
98,422 words - 2Theory of Colours — Theory of Colours — alternate edition
Alternate edition of the Theory of Colours. Same content as the Zur Farbenlehre full-text entry; preserved as the work's variant landing-card to accommodate inbound links from different bibliographic identifiers.
94,958 words
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