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“Can you lend me [Goethe's] Theory of Colors for a few weeks? It is an important work. His last things are insipid” -Beethoven

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Booktryst offers a peek at famed German novelist and (apparently) amateur physicist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Theory of Colors, revealing Goethe as a sort of proto-Kandinsky.

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  1. Uma homenagem ao maior poeta alemão Clássico: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, mais conhecido como Goethe. « Revista Eletrönica Null / EMagazine Null
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