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>>9764035
A little over a century after Newton's "Opticks," Goethe wrote a book on his pet theory of light/colour, which among other things, described his beliefs that many optical phenomena arose from light interacting with darkness (as if it were a separate entity). See pic related from wiki.

Goethe was also an adamant Neptunist, to the point of making the demon Mephistopheles from Faust a Plutonist because he was so butthurt about someone disagreeing with his geological opinions.

I'm afraid Goethe was a brainlet pseud, sorry.