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Modern natural science sees darkness as a complete nothingness. According to this view, the light which streams into a dark space has no resistance from the darkness to overcome. Goethe pictures to himself that light and darkness relate to each other like the north and south pole of a magnet. The darkness can weaken the light in its working power.
According to this theory, the creation of colour is dependent on the distribution of dark and light reflecting through a transparent object. [5] Turner uses concepts from Goethe's theory, which is a rejection of Newton's Seven Colour Theory , and expresses the belief that every colour is an individualised combination of light and darkness.
The basest element, earth, created using all the other elements, can be perceived by all five senses — (i) hearing, (ii) touch, (iii) sight, (iv) taste, and (v) smell. The next higher element, water, has no odor but can be heard, felt, seen and tasted. Next comes fire, which can be heard, felt and seen. Air can be heard and felt.
'darkness, gloom'), [2] or Erebos, is the personification of darkness. In Hesiod 's Theogony , he is the offspring of Chaos , and the father of Aether and Hemera (Day) by Nyx (Night); in other Greek cosmogonies, he is the father of Aether, Eros , and Metis , or the first ruler of the gods.
Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution (1969; ISBN 1-57586-162-3) is a book by Brent Berlin and Paul Kay.Berlin and Kay's work proposed that the basic color terms in a culture, such as black, brown, or red, are predictable by the number of color terms the culture has.
The ancient Egyptian Night hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed nos. N3 is a portrayal of the sky with the 'was' scepter hanging from it; it is in the Gardiner subset for "sky, earth, and water". In the Egyptian language , the night hieroglyph is used as a determinative for words relating to 'obscurity'.
Lightness is a philosophical concept most closely associated with continental philosophy and existentialism, which is used in ontology.The term "lightness" varies in usage but is differentiated from physical weight, such as "the lightness of balsa wood".
Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters. — Genesis 1:2, New International Version [ 2 ] The words tohu and bohu also occur in parallel in Isaiah 34:11 , which the King James Version translates with the words "confusion" and "emptiness".