On Vision and Colors tried to demonstrate physiologically that color is "specially modified activity of the retina." The initial basis for Schopenhauer's color theory comes from Goethe's chapter on physiological colors, which discusses three principal pairs of contrasting colors: red/green, orange/blue, and yellow/violet. This is in contrast to the customary emphasis on Newton's seven colors of the Newtonian spectrum. In accordance with Aristotle, Schopenhauer considered that colors arise by the mixture of shadowy, cloudy darkness with light. With white and black at each extreme of the scale, colors are arranged in a series according to the mathematical ratio between the proportions of light and
Coat of Many Colors (song) and holes in both my shoes", rushed to school, "just to find the others laughing and making fun of me" for wearing a coat made of rags. And oh I did not understand it, for I felt I was rich<br>And I told them of the love my momma sewed in every stitch<br>And I told 'em all the story momma told me while she sewed<br>And how my coat of many colors was worth more than all their clothes The song concludes with Parton singing the moral of her story:But they didn't understand it, and I tried to make them see<br>One is