OKEN, Lorenz (1779-1851). Die Zeugung. Bamberg and Wrzburg: Joseph Anton Goebhardt, 1805. Engraved title with vignette. Contemporary marbled boards, printed paper spine label (light rubbing to edges). FIRST EDITION. "A small book of methodological importance" (DSB), Die Zeugung outlines Oken's evolutionary view of Naturphilosophie, the school of thought founded by Schelling a few years earlier. "Oken reinterpreted the biological notion of the 'Great Chain of Being' to mean that each 'link' in the chain had appeared successively in time" (Norman). Garrison-Morton 106; Waller 11920; Norman 1608. -- OKEN. Lehrbuch der Naturphilosophie. Jena: Friedrich Frommann, 1809-1811. 3 volumes, 8o. Contemporary blue boards, uncut (fading to spines). FIRST EDITION. Waller 10960; Norman 1609. (4)

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OKEN, Lorenz (1779-1851). Die Zeugung. Bamberg and Wrzburg: Joseph Anton Goebhardt, 1805. Engraved title with vignette. Contemporary marbled boards, printed paper spine label (light rubbing to edges). FIRST EDITION. "A small book of methodological importance" (DSB), Die Zeugung outlines Oken's evolutionary view of Naturphilosophie, the school of thought founded by Schelling a few years earlier. "Oken reinterpreted the biological notion of the 'Great Chain of Being' to mean that each 'link' in the chain had appeared successively in time" (Norman). Garrison-Morton 106; Waller 11920; Norman 1608. -- OKEN. Lehrbuch der Naturphilosophie. Jena: Friedrich Frommann, 1809-1811. 3 volumes, 8o. Contemporary blue boards, uncut (fading to spines). FIRST EDITION. Waller 10960; Norman 1609. (4)