Notes on Counter-Space

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George Adams wanted to understand some chemical processes which were hard to understand by conventional means. He was referred to Alfred North Whitehead for a mathematical framework in which they might be understood… This I recollect from Adam’s “Letter to Olive Whicher” publication. This was before Rudolf Steiner asked him to further explore Projective or Synthetic geometry and Counter-Space.

• To read:
  • https://footnotes2plato.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/etheric-imagination-in-process-philosophiy-from-schelling-and-steiner-to-whitehead1.pdf
    • Which refers to anti-space or Ideal Space in:
  • Whitehead “A Treatise on Universal Algebra”: https://archive.org/details/atreatiseonuniv00goog
  • Of interest, the first non-Euclidean geometry reference was by Ferdinand Karl Schweikart who called it Astral geometry possibly because of astronomical anomalies that Euclidean geometry could not explain:
    • The history of Non-Euclidean geometry should be introduced in the chapter about George Adams.

Ideal points are points at infinity (I think). Therefore Whitehead would have named his anti-space or Ideal Space after the technical mathematical term. I saw the term Ideal in terms of metaphysics, which considerations of infinity very much are. I need to teach myself more about the hows, whys and wherefores of such considerations 🙂

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