J.E.Purkinje : Fragments from the Diary of Perished Naturalist : On the Soul of the Earth and Romantic Science.
Abstract
Extensive author disquisition and comments go along both parts of publication. The first part of the publication consists of the first critical edition of a revised translation of a „forgotten“ anonymously published book written by J.E.
Purkyně. The original book was published in German language in Vratislav (Breslau) in year 1850.
It represents the personal philosophical legacy of the most important Czech naturalist of the 19th century. The book deals with problems of evolution, including spiritual evolution and the questions if the Earth has a sort of spirit and what are its qualities and manifestations.
It tries to solve the similar problems as one of the important streams of idealistic „naturphilosophie“, when Europe and America as well tried to find a new way of the perception of time and space that lead to modern sciences. The other part of the book concentrates on essays about return of romantic science expressed e.g. as the attempt to grasp the world as certain interconnected unity.