Die Metamorphose der Pflanzen
treatise by Goethe
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discussed in biography
- In 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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