Goethe on Science Imelda Whelehan As the authors show

As the authors show

With sections that give quick answers to how things work

providing a ground-breaking and sobering antidote to platitudes about a feminine future

archives and personal statements

His subsequent books of poetry are: "Five Ages" (1978)

Goethe on Science Imelda Whelehan As the authors showA systematic arrangement of extracts from Goethe's major scientific works which reveal how fundamentally different his approach was to scientific study of the natural world. According to Goethe, our deepest knowledge of phenomena can arise only from a contemplative relationship with nature, in which our feelings of awe and wonder are intrinsic. As conceived by him, science is as much a path of inner development as it is a way to accumulating