Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749  – 22 March 1832), was a German writer and thanks to that a very influential person. Goethe's influence spread across Europe, and for the next century his works were a major source of inspiration in music, drama, poetry and philosophy. Goethe is considered by many to be the most important writer in Germany and one of the most important thinkers in Western culture as well. Early in his career, however, he wondered whether painting or writing might not be his true vocations; late in his life, he expressed the expectation that he would ultimately be remembered above all for his work on colour. Goethe popularized the Goethe Barometer using a principle established by Torricelli (1608-1647). According to Hegel, 'Goethe has kept himself busy a good deal of his time with meteorology; barometer readings interested him particularly. The main thing is that he gives a comparative table of barometric readings during the whole month of December 1822, at Weimar, Jena, London, Boston, Vienna, He claims to deduce from it that the barometric level varies in the same proportion not only in each zone but that it has the same variation, too, at different altitudes above sea-level' In 1793 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe crafted a special "weather glass", which was discovered only after his death many years later in his Wiemar laboratory: a pear-shaped blown-glass vessel, with ...
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