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Goethe’s famous colour wheel, created in 1809, was used to illustrate the chapter “Allegorical, symbolic, and mystical use of colour” in his seminal work Farbenlehre (1810)
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goethe, famous, color, color wheel prism, 1800s
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“Coloured rings”, mezzotint with watercolour by René Henri Digeon, after an image by J. Silberman; plate VIII in Les phénomènes de la physique (1868) . (public domain art)