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The form of becoming : embryology and the epistemology of rhythm, 1760-1830 / Janina Wellmann ; translated by Kate Sturge.
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Wellmann, Janina
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Uniform title
Form des Werdens.
English
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Zone Books, 2017.
Description
423 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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QL953 .W45 2017
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Subject(s)
Embryology
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History
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18th century
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Embryology
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History
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19th century
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Biological rhythms
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Medicine
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History
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18th century
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Translator
Sturge, Kate
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Summary note
"The Form of Becoming offers an innovative understanding of the emergence around 1800 of the science of embryology and a new notion of development, one based on the epistemology of rhythm. It argues that between 1760 and 1830, the concept of rhythm became crucial to many fields of knowledge, including the study of life and living processes. The book juxtaposes the history of rhythm in music theory, literary theory, and philosophy with the concurrent turn in biology to understanding the living world in terms of rhythmic patterns, rhythmic movement, and rhythmic representations. Common to all these fields was their view of rhythm as a means of organizing time -- and of ordering the development of organisms. Janina Wellmann, a historian of science, has written the first systematic study of visualization in embryology. Embryological development circa 1800 was imagined through the pictorial technique of the series, still prevalent in the field today. Tracing the origins of the developmental series back to seventeenth-century instructional graphics for military maneuvers, dance, and craft work, The Form of Becoming reveals the constitutive role of rhythm and movement in the visualization of developing life."--Publisher's website.
Notes
Originally published as: Die Forme des Werdens (Göttingen : Wallstein Verlag, c2010).
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: The form of becoming
Part I: A new epistemology of rhythm. 1. Literary form ; 2. Epigenetic music ; 3. Rhythmical productivity in Schelling's philosophy of nature and art
Part II: Biological rhythm. 4. Forms out of formlessness ; 5. Sense and verse : Goethe's Metamorphosis of plants ; 6. The rhythm of the living world : physiology circa 1800
Part III: Serial iconography. 7. The iconography of motion ; 8. Epigenetic iconography ; 9. Folding into being : Christian Heinrich Pander ; 10. Karl Ernst von Baer and the choreography of development
Conclusion.
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ISBN
9781935408765 ((hardcover))
1935408763 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2016043302
OCLC
958796286
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40026930579
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The form of becoming [electronic resource] : embryology and the epistemology of rhythm, 1760-1830 / Janina Wellmann ; translated by Kate Sturge.
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