English writers who have spoken of Goethes Doctrine of Colours, have generally confined their remarks to those parts of the work in which he has undertaken to account for the colours of the prismatic spectrum, and of refraction altogether, on principles different from the received theory of Newton. The less questionable merits of the treatise consisting of a well- arranged mass of observations and experiments, many of which are important and interesting, have thus been in a great measure overlooked. The translator, aware of the opposition which the theoretical views alluded to have met with, intended at first to make a selection of such of the experiments as seem more directly applicable to the theory and practice of painting. Finding, however that the alterations this would have involved would have been incompatible with a clear and connected view of the authors statements, he preferred giving the theory itself, reflecting, at the same time, that some scientific readers may be curious to hear the author speak for himself even on the points at issue. In reviewing the history and progress of his opinions and research, Goethe tells us that he first submitted his views to the public in two short essays entitled Contributions to Optics. Among the circumstances which he supposes were unfavourable to him on that occasion, he mentions the choice of his title, observing that by a reference to optics he must have appeared to make pretensions to a knowledge of mathematics, a science with which he admits hewas very imperfectly acquainted.
Question: Mathematics was Goethes greatest science.
Options:
A. true, B. false, C. uncertain
Answer: B