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FEW people to-day have ever heard of Georg Biichner, while their ideas about Oken turn mainly on his “Lehrbuch der Naturphilosophie”, a rather fantastic work, and his controversy with Goethe as to the vertebral origin of the cranium. They lived in a pejiod of controversy which played around irrational theories but was often somewhat poetic in its conceptions. The philosophers of the early part of the last century were indeed imaginative and honest, but too abstract to provide a popular theory of life. The author of the little book before us, however, does not set out to expose this, but to produce a pleasant and readable book on two interesting personalities-and he has succeeded.
Lorens Oken und Georg Büchner:
Zwei Gestalten aus der Übergangszeit von Natur-philosophie zu Naturwissenschaft. Von Jean Strohl. (Schriften der Corona, Band 14.) Pp. 106. (Zürich: Verlag der Corona; Münich und Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1936.) 5 gold marks.
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Lorens Oken und Georg Büchner. Nature 139, 489 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139489d0
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