Metamorphosis of Plants
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Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu erklären, known in English as Metamorphosis of Plants, was published by German poet and philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1790.[1] In this work, Goethe essentially discovered the (serially) homologous nature of leaf organs in plants, from cotyledons, to photosynthetic leaves, to the petals of a flower. Although Sir Richard Owen, the British vertebrate anatomist, is generally credited with first articulating a definition of the word "homology" (in 1843), it is clear that Goethe had already arrived at a sophisticated view of homology and transformation (within an idealist morphological perspective) more than fifty years earlier.
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[edit]- ↑ Wellmann, Janina (2017). The Form of Becoming: Embryology and the Epistemology of Rhythm, 1760–1830. Zone Books. pp. 122–126. ISBN 9781935408765. Retrieved June 30, 2026.
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[edit]- Metamorphosis of Plants (poem) in English
- Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen zu Erklären (Gotha, 1790)
- The Metamorphosis of Plants, by Zemplén Gábor
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