Natural and Nurtured Affinities: The Importance of Goethe' s Friendship with Schiller to the Development of His Science.

The article discusses the friendship between German authors Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller during the late 18th century, including Schiller's impact on Goethe's understanding of science and nature. The article references letters and correspondence between Schiller and Goethe, including Schiller's comments on the similarity between Goethe's consciousness and that of an ancient Greek.