02586cam a2200397 i 4500 1127845208 TxAuBib 20240119120000.0 161011s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016043302 9781935408765 hardcover 1935408763 hardcover (OCoLC)958796286 TxAuBib rda eng ger Wellmann, Janina,. Form des Werdens English. The form of becoming : embryology and the epistemology of rhythm, 1760-1830 / Janina Wellmann ; translated by Kate Sturge. New York : Zone Books, 2017. ©2017. 423 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published as: Die Forme des Werdens (Göttingen : Wallstein Verlag, ©2010). Includes bibliographical references and index. "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." -- Amazon.com. 20240119. Embryology History 18th century. Embryology History 19th century. Music. History. fast Sturge, Kate,. Wellmann, Janina., Göttingen : Wallstein, 2010. TXHAP