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June 19, I799.—Goethe under this date wrote: “Late in the evening, when the twilight was passing into a clear night, as I was walking up and down with a friend in the garden, we remarked very plainly about the flowers of the Oriental poppy, which were distinguishable above everything else by their brilliant red, something like a flame. We placed ourselves before the plant, and looked steadfastly at it, but could not see the flash again, till we chanced in passing to look at it obliquely; and we could repeat the phenomenon at pleasure.”
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S., E. Calendar of Discovery and Invention. Nature 119, 908 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119908a0
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