Les Affinités électives de Goethe : entre science et littérature

The title of Goethe’s novel Elective Affinities refer to the chemical tenet of rapports between different bodies which, from Etienne-François Geoffroy’s works in 1718, emerge as a prevailing theory in the eighteenth-century chemistry. Goethe does not limit his views to the analogy between love attra...

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Main Author: Bernard Joly
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Université de Lille 2006-05-01
Series:Methodos
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/methodos/482
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spelling doaj-37b5ac34caae48e6b2b757db841336ce2020-11-24T21:27:23ZfraUniversité de LilleMethodos1769-73792006-05-01610.4000/methodos.482Les Affinités électives de Goethe : entre science et littératureBernard JolyThe title of Goethe’s novel Elective Affinities refer to the chemical tenet of rapports between different bodies which, from Etienne-François Geoffroy’s works in 1718, emerge as a prevailing theory in the eighteenth-century chemistry. Goethe does not limit his views to the analogy between love attractions which made and break up couples and chimical processes which determine bonds and precipitations of chemical substances. His excellent knowledge of chemical and alchemical tradition leads him to consider affinity as a law of nature having effects in chemistry as well as in living being and into mind.http://journals.openedition.org/methodos/482affinitiesalchemychemistryGeoffroyAristophanescalendar
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Les Affinités électives de Goethe : entre science et littérature
Methodos
affinities
alchemy
chemistry
Geoffroy
Aristophanes
calendar
author_facet Bernard Joly
author_sort Bernard Joly
title Les Affinités électives de Goethe : entre science et littérature
title_short Les Affinités électives de Goethe : entre science et littérature
title_full Les Affinités électives de Goethe : entre science et littérature
title_fullStr Les Affinités électives de Goethe : entre science et littérature
title_full_unstemmed Les Affinités électives de Goethe : entre science et littérature
title_sort les affinités électives de goethe : entre science et littérature
publisher Université de Lille
series Methodos
issn 1769-7379
publishDate 2006-05-01
description The title of Goethe’s novel Elective Affinities refer to the chemical tenet of rapports between different bodies which, from Etienne-François Geoffroy’s works in 1718, emerge as a prevailing theory in the eighteenth-century chemistry. Goethe does not limit his views to the analogy between love attractions which made and break up couples and chimical processes which determine bonds and precipitations of chemical substances. His excellent knowledge of chemical and alchemical tradition leads him to consider affinity as a law of nature having effects in chemistry as well as in living being and into mind.
topic affinities
alchemy
chemistry
Geoffroy
Aristophanes
calendar
url http://journals.openedition.org/methodos/482
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