Author: Hoffmann, Nigel,
Title: Goethe's science of living form. The artistic stages.
Description: Nigel Hoffmann shows that understanding the dynamic, living qualities of nature requires artistic capacities. He distinguishes four stages of scientific inquiry that correspond to the four classical elements of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. Modern analytical science with its causal thinking can be characterized as an Earth mode of cognition. A dynamic approach that follows transformation over time requires a sculptural sense of form and corresponds to the element of Water. (Goodreads) l Adinis Press. Hillsdale 2007. Pb. 173 pp. Ills. by Pamela Dalton. very good.

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