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The Secret of the Golden Flower was first translated into German by sinologist Richard Wilhelm, a friend of Carl Jung, who had been introduced to the work by his Chinese teacher. [17] The work was later translated from German to English by Cary F. Baynes. [18]
English. Read; Edit; View history ... Download as PDF; Printable version ... Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Flower of Life may refer to: Flower of Life, a symbol ...
His ideas went against prevailing dogma that flowers were generally self-fertilising and that insect visits were rare, so his proposals were thought unnecessary. His ideas were also in conflict with belief in the created harmony of nature: in disagreeing with him, Goethe described nature as behaving like an artist, not a workman.
The Secret Life of Plants (1973) is a book by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, which documents controversial experiments that claim to reveal unusual phenomena associated with plants, such as plant sentience and the ability of plants to communicate with other creatures, including humans. The book goes on to discuss philosophies and ...
Rhodanthe's name means "rose flower", a composite word made up by the Greek words ῥόδον meaning "rose", [3] and ἄνθος meaning "flower, blossom". [4] Rhodon is the origin the English word rose, and seems to have been borrowed into the Greek language from the East. [5]
Ancient Secrets is a series on the National Geographic Channel. As the show unfolds, it attempts to investigate the world's most enduring – and infamous – structures , legends , and icons . [ 1 ]
ROME — Buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius’ cataclysmic eruption in A.D. 79, hundreds of papyrus scrolls have kept their secrets hidden for centuries. But archeologists have now been able to ...
The fossil history of flowering plants records the development of flowers and other distinctive structures of the angiosperms, now the dominant group of plants on land.The history is controversial as flowering plants appear in great diversity in the Cretaceous, with scanty and debatable records before that, creating a puzzle for evolutionary biologists that Charles Darwin named an "abominable ...