The Metamorphosis of Plants
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von, Miller, Gordon L., Miller, Gordon L.
- 出版商: MIT
- 出版日期: 2024-08-06
- 售價: $1,070
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,017
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 156
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 0262551020
- ISBN-13: 9780262551021
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商品描述
Goethe's influential text, newly illustrated with stunning color photographs.
The Metamorphosis of Plants, published in 1790, was Goethe's first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend "the truth about the how of the organism." Inspired by the diversity of flora he found on a journey to Italy, Goethe sought a unity of form in diverse structures. He came to see in the leaf the germ of a plant's metamorphosis--"the true Proteus who can hide or reveal himself in all vegetal forms"--from the root and stem leaves to the calyx and corolla, to pistil and stamens. With this short book--123 numbered paragraphs, in the manner of the great botanist Linnaeus--Goethe aimed to tell the story of botanical forms in process, to present, in effect, a motion picture of the metamorphosis of plants. This MIT Press edition of The Metamorphosis of Plants illustrates Goethe's text (in an English translation by Douglas Miller) with a series of stunning and starkly beautiful color photographs as well as numerous line drawings. It is the most completely and colorfully illustrated edition of Goethe's book ever published. It demonstrates vividly Goethe's ideas of transformation and interdependence, as well as the systematic use of imagination in scientific research--which influenced thinkers ranging from Darwin to Thoreau and has much to teach us today about our relationship with nature.
The Metamorphosis of Plants, published in 1790, was Goethe's first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend "the truth about the how of the organism." Inspired by the diversity of flora he found on a journey to Italy, Goethe sought a unity of form in diverse structures. He came to see in the leaf the germ of a plant's metamorphosis--"the true Proteus who can hide or reveal himself in all vegetal forms"--from the root and stem leaves to the calyx and corolla, to pistil and stamens. With this short book--123 numbered paragraphs, in the manner of the great botanist Linnaeus--Goethe aimed to tell the story of botanical forms in process, to present, in effect, a motion picture of the metamorphosis of plants. This MIT Press edition of The Metamorphosis of Plants illustrates Goethe's text (in an English translation by Douglas Miller) with a series of stunning and starkly beautiful color photographs as well as numerous line drawings. It is the most completely and colorfully illustrated edition of Goethe's book ever published. It demonstrates vividly Goethe's ideas of transformation and interdependence, as well as the systematic use of imagination in scientific research--which influenced thinkers ranging from Darwin to Thoreau and has much to teach us today about our relationship with nature.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
歌德的影響力文本，配以驚人的彩色照片全新插圖。
《植物的變形》，於1790年出版，是歌德首次重大嘗試描述他在給朋友的信中所稱的「有機體運作的真相」。受到他在意大利旅行中所見植物多樣性的啟發，歌德尋求在多樣結構中找到形式的統一。他開始在葉子中看到了植物變形的胚芽——「真正的普羅透斯，能在所有植物形態中隱藏或顯現自己」——從根部和莖葉到萼片和花瓣，再到雌蕊和雄蕊。這本短小的書籍——以偉大的植物學家林奈的風格編排的123個編號段落——歌德旨在講述植物形態變化的故事，實際上呈現出植物變形的動態影像。這本麻省理工學院出版社的《植物的變形》版本，配以道格拉斯·米勒的英文翻譯，通過一系列驚人且極具美感的彩色照片以及眾多線條圖畫來詮釋歌德的文本。這是迄今為止出版的歌德著作中最完整且色彩豐富的插圖版本。它生動地展示了歌德對變化和相互依賴的理念，以及在科學研究中系統性地運用想像力的方式——這些理念影響了從達爾文到梭羅的思想家，並且今天對我們與自然的關係有著重要的啟示。
作者簡介
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), a towering figure in German literature, was the author of The Sorrows of Young Werther, Faust, Italian Journey, The Theory of Colours (MIT Press edition, 1970), and many other works.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
約翰·沃爾夫岡·馮·歌德（Johann Wolfgang von Goethe，1749-1832）是德國文學中的一位傑出人物，他是《少年維特的煩惱》、《浮士德》、《意大利之旅》、《色彩理論》（麻省理工學院出版社版，1970年）及許多其他作品的作者。
