Theory of colours / Johann Woflgang con Goethe, translated from german with notes by Charles Lock Esatlake, introduction by Deane B. Judd

physiological colours : effects of light and darkness on the eye : effects of black and white objects on the eye : grey surfaces and objects: dazzling colourless objects : coloured objects : coloured shadows : faint lights : subjective halos -- physical colours : diotropical colours : diotropical colours of the first class : diotropical colours of the second class - refraction : subjective experiments : refranction without the appearance of colour : conditions of the appearance of colour : conditions under which teh appearence of colour increases : explanation of the foregoing phenomena : decreade of the appearence of colour : grey objects displaced by regraction : coloured objecrts displaced by refraction : achromatism and hyperchromatism : advantages of subjective experiments - transition to the objective : objective experiments : regraction without the appearance of colour : conditions of the appearence of colour : condition of the increase of colour : explanation of the foregoing phenomena : decrease of the appearance of colour : grey objects : coloured objects : achromatism and hyperchromatism : combination of subjective and objective experiments : transition : catoptrical colours : paroptical colours : epoptical colours -- chemical colours : chemical contrast : white : black : first excitation of colour : augmentation of colour : culminatin : fluctuation : passage through the whole scale : inversion : fixation : intermixture, real : intermixture, apparent : communication, actual : communitacion, apparent : extraction : nomenclature : minerals : plants : worms, insects, fishes : birds : mammalia and humann beings : physical and chemical effectsd of the transmission of light through coloured mediums : chemical effect in dioptrical achromatism -- general characteristics : the facility with which colour appears : the defininite nature of colour : combination of the two principles : augmentation to red : junction of the two augmentated extremes : completeness the result of variety in colour : harmony f the complete state : facility with which colour may be made to tend either to the plus or minus side : evanescence of colour : permannce of colour .. relation to other pursuits : relation to philosophy : relation to mathematics : relation to the technical operation of the dyer : relation to physiology and pathology : relation to natural history : relation to general pysics : relation to the theory of music : concluding observations on terminology -- effect of colour with reference to moral associations