Publication of the English Translation
- When
- 1840
- Where
- Place of publication not stated in supplied passages
Charles Lock Eastlake's English translation of Goethe's Theory of Colours was published in 1840, rendering the German text of 1810 accessible to English readers.
Eastlake translated Goethe's Zur Farbenlehre into English, with the English edition appearing in 1840, thirty years after the German publication of 1810. Contemporaneous assessment described the translation as a perfect reproduction of the original that reads more easily and is understood more easily than the German text. Eastlake did, however, omit the content of Goethe's polemic against Newton from the translated text.
Sources
- Charles Lock Eastlake Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-09
- Theory of Colours Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-06
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