Optical diagrams
Date
1810
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Object type
Library reference
40467
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 237mm
width (print): 190mm
width (print): 190mm
Subject
Description
11 figures illustrating various optical phenomena and experiments to Goethe’s doctrine of colours, including colour wheels, discs against black and white backgrounds showing boundary colours, a burning vessel and a landscape view.
Inscribed ‘I’ and numbered ‘1-11’
Plate 1 to Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of colours) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Tubingen, 1810).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a German poet, novelist and scientist.
Inscribed ‘I’ and numbered ‘1-11’
Plate 1 to Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of colours) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Tubingen, 1810).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a German poet, novelist and scientist.