Colours in Culture and Science.

ISBN-13: 9783842494688 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 690 str.

Gudrun Wolfschmidt

Opis

Colours play is an important role in our daily life. On the occasion of 200 years Goethe's colour theory (2010) an interdisciplinary symposium "Colours in culture and science" was organized. The different topics are now discussed and presented in this book: 1. Colours in Philosophy and Epistemology, 2. Colours in Cultural History - Pigments and Dyes, 3. Colours in Art and Cultural History, 4. Light and Colour - Colour Theory: Newton's Physics versus Goethe, 4. Colour Theories, Colour Systems, Colour Chemistry, 5. Colour Perception and Colour Vision, 6. Cultural Meaning of Colours.

O autorze

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