The doctrine of color

Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749–1832) is a great German poet, philosopher and natural scientist, the breadth of his interests, the depth of knowledge, and the extraordinary thinking amaze. The readers" attention is proposed by him “The Doctrine of Color” (in reduction) In it, the author, polemicizing with the observations of Isaac Newton, actually considers the color completely different: not from the point of view of physics (optical spectrum studied by Newton), no, Goethe is interested in the features of a person’s perception of color, as well as various natural phenomena, which affects this perception influencing this perception . Goethe’s observations are more likely in the field of physiology and psychology of people and still have not lost their value. In addition to the “doctrine of color”, the section “Theory of Cognition” provides articles, sketches and aphorisms of I.V. Goethe, which help to better understand the personality of the great poet and thinker