Theory of Colours

continued their path in peace and have handed down observations and thoughts on individual matters that we cannot formulate better nor grasp more correctly.

From anyone who wishes to document the history of any kind of knowledge, we can rightly demand that they provide us with an account of how the phenomena gradually became known, and what people fantasized, presumed, opined, and thought about them. Presenting all of this in a coherent context entails great difficulties, and writing a history is always a precarious endeavor. For even with the most honest intentions, one runs the danger of being dishonest. Indeed, anyone who undertakes such an exposition declares in advance that they will place some things in the light and others in the shadow.

And yet the author has looked forward to such a task for a long time. But since it is usually only the