Whereas most readers are familiar with Goethe as a poet and dramatist, few are familiar with his scientific work.
If you read only one book on Goethan science, this should be the one.
Bortoft shows that a different, ``gentler`` kind of empiricism is possible than that demanded by the dualizing mind of modern technological Science and demonstrates that Goethe\'s participatory phenomenology of a new way of seeing--while far from being a historical curiosity--in fact proposes a practical solution to the dilemmas of contemporary, postmodern science.
He succeeds in showing that Goethe\'s way of doing Science was not a poet\'s folly but a genuine alternative to the dominant scientific paradigm.
Bennett and David Bohm) introduces the fascinating scientific theories of Goethe.
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In this brilliant book, Henri Bortoft (who began his studies of Goethean Science with J.
Whereas most readers are familiar with Goethe as a poet and dramatist, few are familiar with his scientific work
