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Published on Jan 22, 2013
Using Goethe's Theory of Colours
(Zur Farbenlehre) as point of departure, Light Darkness and Colours
takes us on a fascinating journey through the universe of colours. In
1704, Sir Isaac Newton published *Light and Refraction*, his study of
the interactions between sunlight and prisms. Newton was, as a good
scientist, intent on achieving objectivity, which meant studying
sunlight in isolation. He thought colours were contained solely in
light, and found the spectrum he was looking for. When he reproduced
this experiment, Goethe found another, hidden set of colours missed by
Newton. Goethe found the hidden colours in the boundaries between light
and darkness. He felt, as an artist, that one could not talk about light
without including darkness. Calling it 'the light-darkness polarity',
Goethe made this new scientific discovery using artistic methods in
conjunction with science.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_W...
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