Nicholas Boyle
Reader in German Literary and Intellectual History, Magdalene College, Cambridge, and biographer of Goethe
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Goethe and the Science of the Enlightenment
Melvyn Bragg assesses the scientific legacy of the 18th century German poet and thinker Goethe, who gave us the term morphology and is sometimes even credited with inventing biology itself.
10 February 2000
Also featuring: Simon Schaffer
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