Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/1654/en

The theme of conceiving agriculture as an art does not live in the present. And yet, art has been profoundly immanent in the development of agriculture since the age of the great Zarathustra — inaugurator of the ancient Persian cultural epoch and founder of arable farming in the fifth and sixth millennia B.C. Only in the course of the natural-scientific-materialistic age since the mid-nineteenth century, and its offspring, agrarian industrialism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, did every remaining element of artistic disposition fall victim to the scientific-technological ratio. In the prehistoric early period of the ancient Indian and ancient Persian great civilizations, religion, art, and what later became science were

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