My Account
Cart
Contact
What is Qualitative Science?
Search
New
Philosophy
Natural Science
Medicine
Adonis Science Books
Biology
Chemistry
Physics
Astronomy
Social Science
Poetry & Literature
Books for Our Times
Christy MacKaye Barnes
Henry Barnes
Eric Müller
Music
Rainbows, Halos, Dawn, and Dusk
The Appearance of Color in the Atmosphere and Goethe's Theory of Colors
Johannes Kühl
$30.00
Adonis Press
ISBN 978-0-932776-48-8
Paperback
184 pages
6" x 9"
ADD TO CART
Rainbows, Halos, Dawn, and Dusk
explores the captivating colors that appear in the atmosphere of the Earth—coronas, glories, halos, rainbows, dawn, and dusk. It invites readers to observe these ephemeral appearances with fresh attention and understanding. Moreover, it introduces us to little-known key experiences in Goethe’s life that were intimately related to his scientific pursuits and his deep experience of color.
Following the holistic phenomenological method developed by Goethe in his "Theory of Colors," this book bridges the broad gap between human experience and the conventional physics of atmospheric colors. The unfolding descriptions here assume an artistic quality through which our experience of color phenomena is deepened, while at the same time our scientific understanding is enhanced.
This book should prove helpful to scientists looking for a new approach to optics or an introduction to Goethe’s phenomenological science, to teachers looking for new ways to present optics lessons, and to anyone who loves the colors of nature and wishes to deepen their relationship to them.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. On Seeing
2. Coronas and Glories: order in diffraction phenomena
3. Halos and Rainbows: on the prismatic colors ?
4. The Blue Sky and the Setting Sun: on colors of twilight and colors of turbidity
5. An Overview of Atmospheric Colors?
6. On the “Sensory-Moral Effects” of Atmospheric Color?Phenomena?
7. Goethe’s Theory of Colors ?
8. The Theory of Colors in Goethe’s Biography ?
9. The Earth’s Atmosphere as the Natural Abode of Color?
10. Appendix: Aspects from the perspective of textbook physics
Literature
This book was originally published in German as
Höfe, Regenbögen, Dämmerung
(Freies Geistesleben, 2011).
Review by Alexander Murrell