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March 27, 2017 | Botany

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Gordon L. Miller

The Metamorphosis of Plants, released in 1790, was once Goethe's first significant try to describe what he referred to as in a letter to a chum "the fact concerning the how of the organism." encouraged by way of the variety of flowers he chanced on on a trip to Italy, Goethe sought a team spirit of shape in various buildings. He got here to determine within the leaf the germ of a plant's metamorphosis--"the real Proteus who can cover or exhibit himself in all vegetal types" -- from the foundation and stem leaves to the calyx and corolla, to pistil and stamens. With this brief booklet -- 123 numbered paragraphs, within the demeanour of the nice botanist Linnaeus -- Goethe aimed to inform the tale of botanical types in technique, to provide, in influence, a movie of the metamorphosis of vegetation. This MIT Press variation of The Metamorphosis of vegetation illustrates Goethe's textual content (in an English translation by way of Douglas Miller) with a sequence of beautiful and starkly attractive colour photos in addition to quite a few line drawings. it's the such a lot thoroughly and colorfully illustrated version of Goethe's ebook ever released. It demonstrates vividly Goethe's rules of transformation and interdependence, in addition to the systematic use of mind's eye in clinical examine -- which inspired thinkers starting from Darwin to Thoreau and has a lot to educate us this present day approximately our dating with nature.

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