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  • Forms of Life: Goethe’s Impact on Twentieth-Century Anglophone Botany and Morphology

    Creator:
    Hahn, Andre M.
    Abstract:
    This dissertation examines the impact of the German naturalist and literary figure Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s ideas on twentieth century Anglophone plant morphology and biology. Goethe interpreted the organ forms of flowering plants as metamorphoses of each other. His literary, historical, and philosophical writings suggest themes of alienation from and...
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    provided the first chance for me to write about Goethe in one of his seminars. Anita Guerrini, Evan