Theory of Colors - Johann Goethe

In this unique work, Goethe draws on his personal background as an artist and writer who deals with sensory data as aesthetic elements rather than purely material manifestations, in order to address and discuss Newton’s vision, which encouraged the emergence of a reductive physical climate that attempts to dismantle perceived phenomena instead of dealing with them as an integrated entity, and deprives the impressionistic and sensory aspect of any scientific value even in the world of physiology. Writers who have dealt with Goethe’s theory of colors have limited their notes to those parts in which he is concerned with explaining the colors of the prism spectrum as well as the colors of reflection based on principles different from Newton’s traditional theory. As for the features that have not received much discussion in this research, and which are characterized by a harmonious structure of observations and experiments, many of which are important and striking, they have been largely neglected until now. Therefore, it would have been better to present the work in its entirety without any modification, because some scientific readers may be more curious to listen to the author himself express his opinion regarding the less prominent points than they are eager to read what they have heard before.