
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1987
Pages: 133-145
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9789027724007
Full citation:
, "Goethe and the concept of metamorphosis", in: Goethe and the sciences, Berlin, Springer, 1987


Goethe and the concept of metamorphosis
pp. 133-145
in: Frederick Amrine, Francis J. Zucker, Harvey Wheeler (eds), Goethe and the sciences, Berlin, Springer, 1987Abstract
In 1790 Goethe published his study on The Metamorphosis of Plants, 123 sections divided into an introduction and eight chapters. None of Goethe's other writings on natural science approaches the inner unity and intellectual scope of this treatise, with which only the Theory of Color can compare.
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Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1987
Pages: 133-145
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9789027724007
Full citation:
, "Goethe and the concept of metamorphosis", in: Goethe and the sciences, Berlin, Springer, 1987