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The Philosophical Life of Plants

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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King’s College, London
University of the West of England

Untitled watercolour from the Margaret Meen collection
Painted by Margaret Meen probably between 1770 – 1820
Archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Ximenia americana
A nineteenth-century copy of Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. 1780-1781. Volume 2, tabula 107
Archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

A research network exploring the ways in which plants and thinking have been interlinked, since J. W. Goethe’s Die Metamorphose der Pflanzen (1790), within philosophy, the history of ideas, botany, the environmental humanities, the cognitive sciences and literary studies, including a virtual exhibition curated around the project.

  • Home
  • About
    • Project
    • People
    • Events
    • Notes on Illustrations
  • Goethe, Philosopher-Botanist
  • Histories of Plant-Thinking
  • Plants and Philosophy Now
  • Exhibition

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