# Theory of Colours

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- Book: [Theory of Colours](https://www.bookquiver.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/theory-of-colours) ([Theory of Colours.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/theory-of-colours.md))
- Authors: [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://www.bookquiver.com/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe), [Charles Lock Eastlake](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-lock-eastlake)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6257-021-3
- Pages: 468
- Published: 1970-03-15
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

By closely following Goethe's explanations of the color phenomena, the reader may become so divorced from the wavelength theory—Goethe never even mentions it—that he may begin to think about...