Tabula Colorum: Richard Waller, „A Catalogue of Simple and Mixt Colours with a Specimen of Each Colour Prefixt Its Properties,“ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 6 for the years 1686 and 1687 (London, 1688). (via)
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„In 1692 an artist known only as “A. Boogert” mixed and Described every color imaginable in an 800-page book. Not only would he begin the book with a bit about the use of color in painting, but would go on to explain how to create certain hues and change the tone by adding one, two, or three parts of water. “ (via)
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: „Colour wheel“
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“Newton’s error was trusting math over the sensations of his eye.”
The German thinker Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was already an established statesman, poet, author and philosopher when he published his colour theories in 1810. Unconvinced by Newton’s belief that colours were contained within light, he thought that it was the interplay of light and dark, as seen through atmospheres like dust and air, that created colour. (via)
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Philipp Otto Runge, „Color Sphere – Farbenkugel“, 1810.
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