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Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832     Subjects     Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Knowledge -- Botany.     Plant morphology     Browse Catalog     by author:      Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832       by title:      The metamorphosis of...         MARC Display

The metamorphosis of plants / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; introduction and photography by Gordon L. Miller. by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 MIT Press, ©2009. Subjects Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Knowledge -- Botany.   Plant morphology Summary note:  "The Metamorphosis of Plants, originally published in 1790, was Goethe's first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend "the truth about the how of the organism." Inspired by the diversity of flora he found on a journey to Italy, Goethe sought a unity of form in diverse structures. He came to see in the leaf the germ of a plant's metamorphosis - "the true Proteus who can hide or reveal himself in all vegetal forms"--The root and stem leaves to the calyx and corolla, to pistil and stamens. With this short book - 123 numbered paragraphs, in the manner of the great botanist Linnaeus - Goethe aimed to tell the story of botanical forms in process, to present, in effect, a motion picture of the metamorphosis of plants." "This MIT Press edition of The Metamorphosis of Plants illustrates Goethe's text (in an English translation by Douglas Miller) with a series of stunning and starkly beautiful color photographs as well as numerous line drawings. It is the most completely and colorfully illustrated edition of Goethe's book ever published. It demonstrates vividly Goethe's ideas of transformation and interdependence, as well as the systematic use of imagination in scientific research - which influenced thinkers ranging from Darwin to Thoreau and has much to teach us today about our relationship with nature."--Jacket. Series:  SJC Program Books. Goethe. Metamorphosis of Plants. Description:  xxxi, 123 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm Contents:  The metamorphosis of plants : poem -- The metamorphosis of plants -- Appendix. The genetic method. Added authors:  Miller, Gordon L., 1954- ISBN:  9780262013093 0262013096   Copy/Holding information Collection Call No. Volume Copy Status   Main Stacks QK641.G599 0 c. 04 Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Main Stacks QK641.G599 0 c. 05 Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Main Stacks QK641.G599 0 c. 06 Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Main Stacks QK641.G599 0 c. 07 Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Main Stacks QK641.G599 0 c. 08 Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Main Stacks QK641.G599 0 c. 09 Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Main Stacks QK641.G599 0 c. 11 Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Main Stacks QK641.G599 0 c. 12 Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Main Stacks QK641.G599 0 c. 13 Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Main Stacks QK641.G599 0 c. 14 Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList More Results: 1 2 3 4 5 Next Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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