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
- PART II PHYSICAL COLOURS
- PART III CHEMICAL COLOURS
- XXXIV Chemical Contrast
- XXXV White
- XXXVI Black
- XXXVII First Excitation of Colour
- XXXVIII Augmentation of Colour
- XXXIX Culmination
- XL Fluctuation
- XLI Passage through the Whole Scale
- XLII Inversion
- XLIII Fixation
- XLIV Intermixture, Real
- XLV Intermixture, Apparent
- XLVI Communication, Actual
- XLVII Communication, Apparent
- XLVIII Extraction
- XLIX Nomenclature
- L Minerals
- LI Plants
- LII Worms, Insects, Fishes
- LIII Birds
- LIV Mammalia and Human Beings
- LV Physical and Chemical Effects of the Transmission of Light through Coloured Mediums
- LVI Chemical Effect in Dioptrical Achromatism
- PART IV GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
- PART V RELATION TO OTHER PURSUITS
- PART VI EFFECT OF COLOUR WITH REFERENCE TO MORAL ASSOCIATIONS
- NOTES
XXXIX - Culmination
from PART III - CHEMICAL 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
- PART II PHYSICAL COLOURS
- PART III CHEMICAL COLOURS
- XXXIV Chemical Contrast
- XXXV White
- XXXVI Black
- XXXVII First Excitation of Colour
- XXXVIII Augmentation of Colour
- XXXIX Culmination
- XL Fluctuation
- XLI Passage through the Whole Scale
- XLII Inversion
- XLIII Fixation
- XLIV Intermixture, Real
- XLV Intermixture, Apparent
- XLVI Communication, Actual
- XLVII Communication, Apparent
- XLVIII Extraction
- XLIX Nomenclature
- L Minerals
- LI Plants
- LII Worms, Insects, Fishes
- LIII Birds
- LIV Mammalia and Human Beings
- LV Physical and Chemical Effects of the Transmission of Light through Coloured Mediums
- LVI Chemical Effect in Dioptrical Achromatism
- 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. 214 - 216Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014First published in: 1840