Die Metamorphose der Pflanzen

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Die Metamorphose der Pflanzen

treatise by Goethe

Also known as: “Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären”(Show More)

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Return to Weimar and the French Revolution (1788–94)
…of the principles of botany, Versuch, die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären (“Essay in Elucidation of the Metamorphosis of Plants”; Eng. trans. in Goethe’s Botany), an attempt to show that all plant forms are determined by a process of alternating expansion and contraction of a basic unit, the leaf. He…
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…of the principles of botany, Versuch, die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären (“Essay in Elucidation of the Metamorphosis of Plants”; Eng. trans. in Goethe’s Botany), an attempt to show that all plant forms are determined by a process of alternating expansion and contraction of a basic unit, the leaf. He…
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