Abstract
THE poetic genius and fascinating personality of Goethe have so dazzled the world that the ordinary reader of “Faust” has never so much as suspected that its author could claim to be a distinguished man of science. Some, perhaps, who have studied the life of the poet may be aware of his discoveries in biology and his speculations in botany; others, again, may have heard of his excursion into the field of optics, and may have marvelled at the amazing aberration of his genius which led him to regard his unhappy attack on the Newtonian theory of colour as the proudest and most valuable achievement of his life; but that he aëcomplished anything of worth in mineralogy and geology is known to very few.
Goethes Verhältnis zur Mineralogie und Geognosie. Rede gehalten zur Feier der akademischen Preisverteilung am 16 Juni, 1906.
By Dr. G. Linck. Pp. 48. (Jena: G. Fischer, 1906.) Price 2 marks.
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Goethes Verhältnis zur Mineralogie und Geognosie Rede gehalten zur Feier der akademischen Preisverteilung am 16 Juni, 1906. Nature 75, 146–147 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/075146b0
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