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
- PART IV GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
- The Facility with which Colour appears
- The Definite Nature of Colour
- Combination of the Two Principles
- Augmentation to Red
- Junction of the Two Augmented Extremes
- Completeness the Result of Variety in Colour
- Harmony of the Complete State
- Facility with which Colour may be made to tend the Plus or Minus side
- Evanescence of Colour
- Permanence of Colour
- PART V RELATION TO OTHER PURSUITS
- PART VI EFFECT OF COLOUR WITH REFERENCE TO MORAL ASSOCIATIONS
- NOTES
The Definite Nature of Colour
from PART IV - GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
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
- PART IV GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
- The Facility with which Colour appears
- The Definite Nature of Colour
- Combination of the Two Principles
- Augmentation to Red
- Junction of the Two Augmented Extremes
- Completeness the Result of Variety in Colour
- Harmony of the Complete State
- Facility with which Colour may be made to tend the Plus or Minus side
- Evanescence of Colour
- Permanence of Colour
- 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. 276Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014First published in: 1840