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Helmholtz's critique of Goethe's Theory of Color: more than meets the eye.
Survey of Ophthalmology 2019 March
After arriving at the University of Königsberg in 1849, Hermann von Helmholtz started investigating the trichromatic hypothesis of color perception proposed by Thomas Young. Four years later in 1853, he was invited to lecture to the German Society and used the opportunity to criticize harshly Johann Goethe's Theory of Color published in 1810. Offending a revered member of the German society was an odd method of introducing the study of color to a learned audience, but the content and tone of the lecture suggested Helmholtz was more concerned about dispelling misconceptions of experimental science than in imparting knowledge on the nature of color. By 1860, Helmholtz's color-mixing experiments provided further evidence for the trichromatic hypothesis. Goethe's ideas about color resonated intuitively with generations of artists, but the imperviousness of his theory to experimental testing set it apart from the arena of science.
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