title: Music and biology at the Naples Zoological Station.
abstract: Anton Dohrn projected the Stazione Zoologica as composed of two complementary halves: nature and culture. This attitude was not only expression of the general cultural background of the nineteenth century cultural elite, for Dohrn both formed a coherent and organized whole. In my essay I will analyse the different levels of the relationship between music and biology. In particular, I will demonstrate that both share similar "styles of thought". In the last part I will show that Dohrn's most important scientific contribution, the concept or "principle" of Functionswechsel, provides evidence for the link he had established between music and biology.
authors.forename: Bernardino
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Fantini
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007558:Italy; D008386:Marine Biology / Q000266:history*; D009146:Music / Q000266:history*; D010684:Philosophy