What is the title of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's book?
Q: What is the title of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's book?
A: The title of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's book is Theory of Colours.
Q: Who was influenced by Goethe's work?
A: Goethe's work had a large influence on the art world, particularly among the Pre-Raphaelites. Turner studied it extensively and referred to it in several paintings. Wassily Kandinsky also considered it "one of the most important works".
Q: What did Newton observe that Goethe considered to be special cases?
A: Isaac Newton observed phenomena such as coloured shadows, refraction, and chromatic aberration which Goethe considered to be special cases.
Q: What was Goethe concerned with in his book?
A: In his book, Goethe was primarily concerned with how qualities of colour are perceived rather than measuring colour phenomenon.
Q: How has science come to understand the distinction between optical spectrum and human colour perception?
A: Science has come to understand the distinction between optical spectrum, as observed by Newton, and human colour perception as presented by Goethe.
Q: Which philosophers and physicists have been known to have concerned themselves with Theory of Colours?
A: Several philosophers and physicists have been known to have concerned themselves with Theory of Colours including Arthur Schopenhauer, Kurt Gödel, Werner Heisenberg, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hermann von Helmholtz and Mitchell Feigenbaum.
