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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Form of Becoming -- Part One: A New Epistemology of Rhythm -- 1 Literary Form -- 1.1 Poetry as a Form of Thought: Klopstock -- 1.2 The Alternation of Tones: Hölderlin -- 1.3 The Prosody of Development: Karl Philipp Moritz -- 1.4 Being Is a Rhythmical Relation: Novalis -- 1.5 The Physiological Origins of Language: August Wilhelm Schlegel -- 2 Epigenetic Music -- 2.1 Musical Rhythm as a Physiological Principle -- 2.2 The Theory of Accents -- 2.3 The "Natural Inclination" to Rhythm |
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3 Rhythmical Productivity in Schelling's Philosophy of Nature and Art -- 3.1 Absolute and Finite in the Play of Rhythm -- 3.2 The Rhythm of the Absolute -- 3.3 Necessary Succession -- Part Two: Biological Rhythm -- 4 Forms Out of Formlessness -- 4.1 What Is Epigenesis? A Historiographical Problem -- 4.2 Repetition, Pulse, Spiral: Wolff's Theory of Epigenesis -- 4.3 Describing Constant Change -- 5 Sense and Verse: Goethe's Metamorphosis of Plants -- 5.1 Continual Transformation -- 5.2 The Alternation of Expansion and Contraction -- 5.3 "Going Backward or Forward in the Selfsame Way" |
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5.4 A Brief Cultural History of Metamorphosis -- 5.5 Metamorphosis in Distichs -- 6 The Rhythm of the Living World: Physiology circa 1800 -- 6.1 The Temper of the Life Force -- 6.2 Physiological Times -- 6.3 The Formations of Flow -- Part Three: Serial Iconography -- 7 The Iconography of Motion -- 7.1 The Beginnings of Instructional Graphics -- 7.2 Military Drill -- 7.3 Pose and Series -- 7.4 The Law of Rhythm -- 7.5 Eighteenth-Century Drill -- 7.6 Vaulting, Dancing, Gymnastics: Beauty in Movement -- 7.7 Dance, Formation, Evolution: The Choreography of Motion -- 7.8 Handiwork |
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8 Epigenetic Iconography -- 8.1 Malpighi -- 8.2 The Image as an Aid to Seeing -- 8.3 Painted Tables -- 8.4 Soemmerring's Icones embryonum humanorum -- 8.5 The Image as Argument -- 8.6 Outline and Series: Tredern and Herold -- 8.7 Döllinger's Circle -- 9 Folding into Being: Christian Heinrich Pander -- 9.1 To Form Is to Fold -- 9.2 A New Observational Regime -- 9.3 "So We Selected": Constructing the Developmental Series -- 9.4 An "Assemblage of Embryos": Pander's Plates -- 10 Karl Ernst von Baer and the Choreography of Development -- 10.1 Folding Layers into Tubes |
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10.2 From Fundamental Organs to Tissues -- 10.3 From Line to Surface -- 10.4 Rhythmical Choreography -- 10.5 From Word to Image -- 10.6 ""The Rhythm of Their Organization" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Credits -- Index |
| Summary |
An examination of the constitutive role of rhythm and movement in the visualization of developing life |
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Embryology -- History -- 18th century
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Embryology -- History -- 19th century
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Embryology
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Epistemologia -- historia.
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Embriologia -- historia.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Sturge, Kate, translator
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| ISBN |
9781942130079 |
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1942130074 |
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