Goethe, Ritter und die Polaritat: Geschichte und Kontroversen in Bloomington, MN

While there is currently fierce debate about the right method in basic research, it is worth taking a look at the past. Not unlike today, many thinkers around 1800 were already looking for deep symmetries. In this volume, physicists, philosophers and historians of science show in a controversial way what this meant at that time and what can be learned from it today.