8. The Ethical Foundation of Goethe’s Scientific Thought

Darstellung der Urpflanze. Woodcut by Pierre Jean François Turpin based on a concept by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1837), scanned from Anita Albus, Die Kunst der Künste. Erinnerungen an die Malerei (Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn Verlag, 1997). Photograph by JuTa (2010), Wikimedia, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Urpflanze.png From the scientific revolution of the seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century, the main opposition to science came from religion.