Being familiar with Goethe's Faust story, students of Western
thought will not be surprised to learn that Goethe was also a
scientist, philosopher and historian. This book is about the
interdisciplinary activities of his mid-life (1790 1810) when he
researched optics, colour theory and plant morphology, and at the
same time contributed to the growing literature in the history and
philosophy of science. In Goethe's writings, Karl J. Fink finds a
scientist examining the junctures of nature, the boundary
conditions where growth and change occur. These topics of
transition also define his approach to the history of science,
where the gaps between visible states challenge the historian to
search for metaphors that bridge discontinuities. Fink concludes
his study with Goethe's views on the possibility of a teleology of
science, looking at those writings in which Goethe explores how the
scientist of today projects and directs the science of tomorrow.
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