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Jul 10, 2020 · At least as early as the year 1780, Félix Vicq d’Azyr (1748–1794) had showed the existence of the intermaxillary bone in the human fetus (e.g. Barteczko and Jakob 2004, p. 418). Some historians consider that Goethe actually “re-discovered” the inter-maxillary bone in man.
- Jorge L. García
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- Birthing Ecological and Evolutionary Thought
- The Metamorphosis of The Scientist
- Today and For The Future
As we have seen, adequate understanding in Goethe’s view can only be gained when we consider the relations and connections in which any given thing is embedded. This is ecology understood as a way of knowing. It is not a matter of content, because it applies to the way we study any phenomena, whether they be rocks, cells, or whole organisms. It lea...
You could say that it was Goethe’s gift to sense that he was encountering something of immeasurable depth and potency in every meeting with the natural world. To come closer to that depth and potency without destroying it was his aim: “An organic being is externally so many-sided and internally so manifold and inexhaustible that we cannot choose en...
Good Science“Goethe’s understanding of scientific procedure marked him not simply as a good scientist for the time, but a good scientist for all time” (Richards 2002, p. 408). Historian and philosopher of science Robert Richards comes to this conclusion based on extensive research into Goethe’s scientific writings. Because Goethe realized that scie...
Johann Wolfgang Goethe* (1749–1832) believed that in 1784 he demonstrated the presence of the intermaxillary (premaxillary) bone in man, and that after a certain amount of opposition professional anatomists accepted his findings.
Goethe did not succeed in apprehending in a single idea the law of the whole animal form as he did for the plant form. He found the formative law for one part only of this animal form—for the spinal cord and brain, with the bones enclosing these organs.
Not only did Goethe's discovery not have the significance he attributed to it, but also historians of science claim that he did not discover anything at all: the intermaxillary bone had already been described in the human by several anatomists before him.
While not the only one in his time to question the prevailing view that this bone did not exist in humans, Goethe, who believed ancient anatomists had known about this bone, was the first to prove its existence in all mammals.
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It is true that Goethe made a number of great single discoveries, such as the intermaxillary bone, the vertebral theory of the skull in osteology, the common identity of all plant organs with the leaf in botany, etc.
