Lorenz Oken

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Noun1.Lorenz Oken - German naturalist whose speculations that plants and animals are made up of tiny living `infusoria' led to the cell theory (1779-1851)
Lorenz Okenfuss, Oken, Okenfuss
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In his major encyclopedia of nature, Allgemeine Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande, German naturalist Lorenz Oken (1779-1851) grouped animals based not on science, but philosophy.
Picture this: 400 years of scientific illustration
Un nom a priori inattendu sous la plume de Quinet est celui de Lorenz Oken (1778-1851), qui enseigna la philosophie de la nature a Iena et a Munich.
Quinet, Edgar. Lettres a sa mere, tome III (1826-1830)
Although Lorenz Oken is comprehensively cleared of having appropriated Goethe's discovery of the vertebral construction of the skull, on another, crucial question of who influenced whom (Goethe Schelling, or Schelling Goethe), Richards tries to have it both ways.
The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe
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