Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Colophon
- Dedication
- The Translator's Preface
- Preface To The First Edition Of 1810
- Directions For Placing The Plates
- Contents
- Outline of a Theory Of Colours
- PART I PHYSIOLOGICAL COLOURS
- I Effects of Light and Darkness on the Eye
- II Effects of Black and White Objects on the Eye
- III Grey Surfaces and Objects
- IV Dazzling Colourless Objects
- V Coloured Objects
- VI Coloured Shadows
- VII Faint Lights
- VIII Subjective Halos
- Pathological Colours—Appendix
- PART II PHYSICAL COLOURS
- PART III CHEMICAL COLOURS
- PART IV GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
- PART V RELATION TO OTHER PURSUITS
- PART VI EFFECT OF COLOUR WITH REFERENCE TO MORAL ASSOCIATIONS
- NOTES
VII - Faint Lights
from PART I - PHYSIOLOGICAL COLOURS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2015
- Frontmatter
- Colophon
- Dedication
- The Translator's Preface
- Preface To The First Edition Of 1810
- Directions For Placing The Plates
- Contents
- Outline of a Theory Of Colours
- PART I PHYSIOLOGICAL COLOURS
- I Effects of Light and Darkness on the Eye
- II Effects of Black and White Objects on the Eye
- III Grey Surfaces and Objects
- IV Dazzling Colourless Objects
- V Coloured Objects
- VI Coloured Shadows
- VII Faint Lights
- VIII Subjective Halos
- Pathological Colours—Appendix
- PART II PHYSICAL COLOURS
- PART III CHEMICAL COLOURS
- PART IV GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
- PART V RELATION TO OTHER PURSUITS
- PART VI EFFECT OF COLOUR WITH REFERENCE TO MORAL ASSOCIATIONS
- NOTES
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- Goethe's Theory of ColoursTranslated from the German, with Notes, pp. 38 - 40Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014First published in: 1840