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The Metamorphosis of Plants by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2009, Hardcover)

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Goethe's influential text, newly illustrated with stunning color photographs. The Metamorphosis of Plants , 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"--from 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.

Book Title
Metamorphosis of Plants
Author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Plants / Flowers, Life Sciences / Botany, Plants / General, Life Sciences / Biology
Publication Year
2009
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Science
Number of Pages
156 Pages

Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Qk641.G599 2009
Photographed by
Miller, Gordon L.
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"Goethe would be delighted with this edition of The Metamorphosis of Plants.It does what he hoped would eventually become possible and provides pictures situated in the text of all the plants to which he refers, so that we can see for ourselves the specific points to which he is drawing our attention. Reading it, I felt that here at last is the complete book, compared to which all previous publications of it seem like only a skeleton. Thanks to Gordon Miller's wonderful photography and careful selection of images, as well as his perceptive introduction, we can now all appreciate the extraordinary nature of Goethe's achievement. We can only be astonished at the detailed and painstaking observational work, together with the overall vision of the idea of metamorphosis, which biology today recognizes as the truth of the plant. This welcome edition makes Goethe's work more widely available than ever before, both for those who have not yet had the opportunity to read it, and for those who have read it, to read it again as if for the first time." -Henri Bortoft, author of The Wholeness of Natureand Goethe's Scientific Consciousness
Copyright Date
2009
Lccn
2008-044260
Dewey Decimal
571.8/762
Dewey Edition
22