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Metamorphosis in Images: Insect Transformation from the End of the Seventeenth to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

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Wellmann,  Janina
Max Planck Research Group Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul and Body ca. 800–1650, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Max Planck Society;

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Wellmann, J. (2023). Metamorphosis in Images: Insect Transformation from the End of the Seventeenth to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century. In G. Anderson, & J. Dupré (Eds.), Drawing Processes of Life: Molecules, Cells, Organisms (pp. 245-279). Bristol: Intellect. doi:10.2307/jj.6947019.15.


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Abstract
The English anatomist and discoverer of the circulatory system, William Harvey (1578–1657), was the first person to make a distinction between metamorphosis and epigenesis as two distinct forms of development in Nature. Whereas in epigenesis, the organic forms are created <i>de novo</i> successively one after the other, Harvey postulated that they are generated simultaneously during metamorphosis, like a seal impressing its structure on the mouldable material: In the generation by metamorphosis forms are created as if by the impression of a seal, or, as if they were adjusted in a mould; intruth the whole material is transformed. But an