Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21967

    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 ‘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.


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