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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. IV.?Goethe's Theory of Colours. Translated from the German, with Notet, by Charles Lock Eastlake, R.A., F.R.S. 8vo. London: 1840. II rE rose from the perusal of Goethe's Theory of Colours, in a T f frame of mind but little adapted for a dispassionate analysis of its doctrines; yet, certainly, with no desire either to-expose the ignorance, or reprove the presumption of its celebrated author. Had this work emanated from an individual unknown to fame, or had its heresies been wrapped up in the idiom of a foreign language, we should not have contributed, in the one case, to force them into notice, or in the other, to drag them from their native and uninviting abode. Although we have been long acquainted with the optical lucubrations of Goethe, yet it was only through brief details of hi experiments, and meagre accounts of his speculations; and neither we nor any of our brother critics felt ourselves called upon to enter into the controversy which he had excited. Our sympathy, indeed, with the genius of the poet, had overborne our dissatisfaction with the errors of the philosopher; and we were rather disposed to welcome into our sombre territory the bold, though unbidden minstrel, who could set to music the abstractions of science. This spirit of toleration, however, had its limits. His Contributions to Optics were alarming neither to the ear nor to the eye; but a large volume addressed to us in our mother tongue, and adorned with a name already embalmed for posterity, assumed the aspect of a challenge which seemed to admit of no compromise. Nor was this attitude belied by its words and its doctrines; and when we found that its author had assailed the mild precepts of Newton.with the shafts of sarcasm and ridicule, and had marshalled against them all the mysticism of an ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217586207 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217586201 |
| Weight | 1.58 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.10 In |
| List Price | $33.59 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 492 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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