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
Two tables of colour swatches from Goethe’s optical experiments.
Inscribed ‘IX. NATUR. Green in Halle. Wünsch in Frankf. A. d. O. NATUR. Wünsch.’
Plate 9 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 ‘IX. NATUR. Green in Halle. Wünsch in Frankf. A. d. O. NATUR. Wünsch.’
Plate 9 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.