History 30B, Spring 2000 Science and Society since the Scientific Revolution

Daily outline, Class 10 (2/17/00)

 

Topics   Romanticism  The sensibility of Humboldtian science  Goethe as scientist  Archetypes and morphology  Optics  Naturphilosophie  Picture of nature  Motivating research

Names and terms   Alexander von Humboldt (again)  F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854)  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)  Elective affinities, Faust, On the theory of colors  Novalis = Friedrich von Hardenberg  archetype  Urpflanze (primal plant)  idealism  Richard Owen  Naturphilosophie (philosophy of nature)  Hegel, Fichte  galvanism  Hans Christian Oersted  Robert Mayer  Humphry Davy

 
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