Goethe's Werke
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Published: 1827
Total Pages: 410
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Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Published: 1827
Total Pages: 410
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Published: 1779
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2009-09-11
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 0262013096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGoethe'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.
Author: Gotz von Berlichingen
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 77
ISBN-13: 9781585453955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGotz von Berlichingen's autobiography is the first autobiography of a German knight. It was originally published between 1556 and 1562. Gotz was known for the fact that he lost his right hand in battle and had it replaced by an iron prosthesis which was so cleverly crafted that he could still use his sword with it. He is also well-known for his famous quote made to one of his enemies, "Lick (kiss) my ass." This work discusses his many feuds and battles, his participation in the peasant's war, and an invasion of France. This is the only English translation of this work.
Author: Hans Schregle
Publisher: Nabu Press
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781289709396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author: Samuel Rush Meyrick
Publisher: Crtitical Inquiry Into Antient
Published: 2019-02-08
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781989434017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the Second of the Three Volume in the series A Crtitical Inquiry Into Antient Armour by Samuel Rush Meyrick. It contains 36 Hand painted illustrations and 10 capitals. This series is considered the standard ti which any history of Armour was based.
Author: Paul Lacroix
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-01-01
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781541371781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn fascinating detail, France in the Eighteenth Century focuses on modern history's most extravagant kingdom and century-France before the Revolution, 1700 to 1789. Lavishly illustrated, it re-creates the splendor and squalor of a fateful era, from the court at Versailles to the filthy back streets of Paris, from royal etiquette to the raucous cries of street peddlers. How the French, rich and poor, dressed, what they ate, how they educated their children, wore their hair, traveled, amused themselves, punished their malefactors-all this and much more comes under the probing eye of Paul Lacroix (1806-1884), Parisian library curator, historian, novelist, playwright, and master of historical detail and trivia. Here are chapters on the lives and courts of the three eighteenth-century kings of France: the last years of the opulent and absolutist Louis XIV, the decadent life of Louis XV, and the well-intentioned reign of the enlightened but blundering Louis XVI. Sections on society, charity, education, fashion, dining, and the theater illustrate the lives of the gentry and bourgeoisie, while street life and Parisian amusements give a picture of the working classes. Chapters on the nobility, the clergy, commerce, finance, and justice outline the functioning-and slow but relentless malfunctioning-of a state and system on the eve of a revolution that would change both France and the world forever. Quotations from contemporary memoirs, diaries, and social commentary add vivid immediacy to Lacroix's portrait of a vanished epoch. This massive treasure of details, newly annotated to provide additional information for the twenty-first-century reader, is an invaluable reference for specialists in the period, for historical researchers, and for any lover of history. This paperback book is an unabridged, fully proofread text of a long-out-of print book. It is not an overpriced facsimile of the original printing, or an unedited OCR scan full of strange misspellings and weirdly misplaced typographical characters. It has been edited to add explanatory footnotes for the 21st-century reader and proofed to eliminate misprints and errors so that it is as clear and readable as the original hardcover edition.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780691043470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGoethe's scientific work is less familiar to the reading public than his poetry, yet his understanding of natural phenomena displays the same sensitivity and brilliance as his depictions of human relationships. Based on Goethe's research in anatomy, botany, physics, chemistry, zoology, meteorology, and geology, these forty selections call upon scientists to devlop their perceptions both inwardly and outwardly in pursuing the continuum of nature through an interconnected and living world.
Author: American Antiquarian Society
Publisher:
Published: 1954
Total Pages: 338
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Publisher: Signet Classics
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780451529626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic selection of writings by Goethe reflects the author's philosophy of love and death. This new, updated package includes a new Introduction. Reissue.