The Other Mind of Europe: Goethe as a Scientist

by J.P.S. Uberoi

While Goethe is generally dismissed as a scientist, this book provides a new reading of the German poet's work in botany and optical physics, arguing that Goethe's 'non-standard' or Paracelsian conception of scientific method is an important and still relevant alternative to the orthodox scientific tradition. The author examines both Goethe's sources and his critics, including Helmholtz, Heisenberg and Pauli in physics, Schopenhauer and Wittgenstein...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195616774
• ISBN13: 9780195616774
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 94 Pages