Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21968

    Optical diagrams

    Date
    1810
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    40467
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 237mm
    width (print): 190mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Optics
    Description
    Two tables of colour swatches from Goethe’s optical experiments.

    Inscribed ‘X. NATUR. Allgemeine Litternatur Zeitung, Jena 1792. No. 31. NATUR. Wünsch.

    Plate 10 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.


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