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Goethe's Exposure of Newton's theory: a polemic on Newton's theory of light and colour

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 i...

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Autor principal: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Imperial College Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2161800