The Form of Becoming: Embryology and the Epistemology of Rhythm, 1760-1830

The Form of Becoming offers an innovative understanding of the emergence around 1800 of the science of...
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Author: Janina Wellmann
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The Form of Becoming: Embryology and the Epistemology of Rhythm, 1760-1830 by Wellmann, Janina

The Form of Becoming: Embryology and the Epistemology of Rhythm, 1760-1830

$74.83

The Form of Becoming: Embryology and the Epistemology of Rhythm, 1760-1830

$74.83
Author: Janina Wellmann
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The Form of Becoming offers an innovative understanding of the emergence around 1800 of the science of embryology and a new notion of development, one based on the epistemology of rhythm. It argues that between 1760 and 1830, the concept of rhythm became crucial to many fields of knowledge, including the study of life and living processes.

The book juxtaposes the history of rhythm in music theory, literary theory, and philosophy with the concurrent turn in biology to understanding the living world in terms of rhythmic patterns, rhythmic movement, and rhythmic representations. Common to all these fields was their view of rhythm as a means of organizing time -- and of ordering the development of organisms.

Janina Wellmann, a historian of science, has written the first systematic study of visualization in embryology. Embryological development circa 1800 was imagined through the pictorial technique of the series, still prevalent in the field today. Tracing the origins of the developmental series back to seventeenth-century instructional graphics for military maneuvers, dance, and craft work, The Form of Becoming reveals the constitutive role of rhythm and movement in the visualization of developing life.

Author: Janina Wellmann
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: 04/04/2017
Pages: 424
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781935408765
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2018

About the Author
Wellmann, Janina: - Janina Wellmann is a researcher at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg.

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