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Development of Arguments Against Newton
- When
- 1793
- Where
- unspecified in sources
Goethe formulated arguments against Newton's optics by 1793, building on Castel's earlier criticisms.
Goethe recorded colour sequences projected at various distances from a prism. He argued that Newton's spectral description was a special case, as observed by Louis Bertrand Castel in 1740. One commentator argues that Goethe was really seeking a psychological theory of colours, not just a physiological one.
Sources
- Theory of Colours Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-06
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