Goethe's Exposure of Newton's Theory: A Polemic on Newton's Theory of Light and Colour

by Michael Petry and Michael John Duck

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, although best known for his literary work, was also a keen and outspoken natural scientist. In the second polemic part of Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours), for example, Goethe attacked Isaac Newton's ground-breaking revelation that light is heterogeneous and not immutable, as was previously thought.This polemic was unanimously rejected by the physicists of the day, and has often been omitted from compendia of Goethe's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783268476
• ISBN13: 9781783268474
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"