Michael Petry: 1 book
Goethe's “Exposure of Newton's Theory”
A Polemic on Newton's Theory of Light and Colour
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
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 immutable,...
