According to my lecturer (and some references in Goethe's letters I didn't bother to look up) he tried to recreate the experiment in which light is broken, but he forgot to add a prism. Surprise surprise, he wasn't able to break light, and thus concluded that the other scientists were victims to some optical illusion. Great how Goethe was able to bend the world around his ego... ;)
ROFL! I can absolutely believe that. Anyone else would have wondered what they had done wrong, but JWG was clearly above all that...
Am interested by your numbers - I certainly have never experienced anything like that.
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Date: 2008-04-02 07:05 pm (UTC)ROFL! I can absolutely believe that. Anyone else would have wondered what they had done wrong, but JWG was clearly above all that...
Am interested by your numbers - I certainly have never experienced anything like that.