2005
DOI: 10.3368/m.xcvii.1.18
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Visualizing Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer's Organic Forces: Goethe's Morphology on the Threshhold of Evolution

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“…Goethe's concept of the Urpflanze was an emergent Proteus, a generalized system of which all plants are built (Pfau, 2010). By contrast, the plant archetype was an original, ideal form, an abstract entity that was collectively ''represented'' in the material world by the whole range of iterated parts -leaf, stalk, sepals, petals, and so on (Pratt and Brook, 1996;Richards, 2002;Bersier, 2005;von Mu¨cke, 2006;Pfau, 2010). 3 A plant is composed of these parts, which for Goethe shared a morphological equivalence and were repeated stages of development.…”
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“…Goethe's concept of the Urpflanze was an emergent Proteus, a generalized system of which all plants are built (Pfau, 2010). By contrast, the plant archetype was an original, ideal form, an abstract entity that was collectively ''represented'' in the material world by the whole range of iterated parts -leaf, stalk, sepals, petals, and so on (Pratt and Brook, 1996;Richards, 2002;Bersier, 2005;von Mu¨cke, 2006;Pfau, 2010). 3 A plant is composed of these parts, which for Goethe shared a morphological equivalence and were repeated stages of development.…”
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“…In 1793 Kielmeyer had argued that three different fundamental life-forces -reproduction, motility, and sensibility -produced this balance by playing off against one another (Kielmeyer, 1993;Richards, 2002;Bersier, 2005). Goethe reverted to a single force, emphasizing the variety of directions it might take.…”
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