Goethe and the Sciences : A Reappraisal (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science) (Reprint)

But how far will Goethe share the devotion of these cosmic rationalists to the beautiful harmonies of mathematics, so distant from any pure and 'direct observation'? When such would be found, Goethe would be content, for (as he said to Eckermann, Feb. 18, 1829): .