Color Theory from Zur Farbenlehre
Object Details
- Book Title
- Zur Farbenlehre
- Caption
- Color Theory
- Educational Notes
- We ask why the sky blue, but how do we know what the color blue is anyway? Sir Isaac Newton is where our understanding of light and color began; he published a series of experiments in 1672 about what we understand today as the rainbow: a spectrum of our colors. Colors are used to describe an object based on the way that it reflects light. Our eyes perceives different colors using a number of special features: the retina is sensitive to different wavelengths of light, and it contains certain kinds of cells that can see color, called cones. This image is an example of how scientists and artists attempted to organize colors and show how they are related to each other. One of the best tools for that is a color wheel which shows primary colors (red, yellow and blue) and the other colors that are made when those primary colors are combined (like orange, green, and purple). Did you know that blue is the most popular color in the world?
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Date
- 1810
- Publication Date
- 1810
- Image ID
- SIL-ZurFarbenlehre00GoetA_0029
- Catalog ID
- 414424
- Creator
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Rights
- No Copyright - United States
- Publication Place
- Tübingen
- Publisher
- J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung
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- Topic
- saac Newton
- Color
- Color Wheel
- Light
- Rainbow
- Language
- German
- Record ID
- silgoi_110715
