Lorenz Oken

However, Muncke saved most of his firepower for Lorenz Oken, leader of the naturphilosophie school of those who believed in the “life-force” idea.

American Connections James Burke 2007

However, Muncke saved most of his firepower for Lorenz Oken, leader of the naturphilosophie school of those who believed in the “life-force” idea.

American Connections James Burke 2007

Lorenz Oken (1779–1815), one of the leaders of the German Naturphilosophie movement, published an antimechanist treatise that taught the superiority of intuitively derived concepts, expressed a belief in the archetypal polarities of nature, and championed a search for ideal types and a teleological unity in nature.

1809 2001

That same memorable year, Lorenz Oken, another philosophical naturalist, professor in the University of Zurich, published the preliminary outlines of his Philosophie der Natur, which, as developed through later publications, outlined a theory of spontaneous generation and of evolution of species.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences 1904

Lorenz Oken _thought_ very hard to find out what was happening to the Holy Ghost, and thereby made a contribution of extraordinary importance to our understanding of uninjured creatures.

Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw 1903

[86] Lorenz Oken, the famous naturalist and man of science, was born at Rohlsbach, in Swabia, 1st August, 1779.

Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel Froebel, Friedrich, 1782-1852 1889

Claude Duret of Moulins, of whose weird transformism (1609) Dr. Henry de Varigny [8] gives us a glimpse, to Lorenz Oken (1779-1851) whose writings are such mixtures of sense and nonsense that some regard him as a far-seeing prophet and others as a fatuous follower of intellectual will-o'-the-wisps.

Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880

Verily these words from Virchow's lips sound like the bitterest irony; for was not Lorenz Oken one of the foremost and most zealous champions of that monistic doctrine of development against which Rudolf Virchow at this day is most violently striving?

Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

[86] Lorenz Oken, the famous naturalist and man of science, was born at

Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel $c translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. Friedrich Fr��bel 1817

In a similar vein, but reminiscent also of the early Greek cosmogonies, Lorenz Oken (1779 -

SPONTANEOUS GENERATION ARAM VARTANIAN 1968