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![[Old] Chapter 1-Part 2: Version 0.3: The Beginnings and Philosophical Foundations of Chemistry: Origins of Natural Philosophy](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/pherecydes_of_syros_recent_bust_syro208-2545820094-e1725719610287.jpg?w=744)
[Old] Chapter 1-Part 2: Version 0.3: The Beginnings and Philosophical Foundations of Chemistry: Origins of Natural Philosophy
Early draft of a deprecated chapter. …from the time of Homer, and the advent of written Greek, humankind began to feel separate from the world of Gods and elemental beings. As Steiner said: “Their thought pictures developed as a tool of truth”….
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![[Old] Chapter 1-Part 1 – Prehistory: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/amphitheatrum_sapientiae_aeternae_-_alchemists_laboratory.jpg?w=1006)
[Old] Chapter 1-Part 1 – Prehistory: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism
Early draft of deprecated chapter. The mysteries to be explored in this book largely fall under the subject matter of chemistry. Though I was not particularly talented at school or university in the practical art of chemistry, I have always been fascinated by its apparent magical qualities. There is something deeply mysterious about it. I…
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![[Old] Chapter 1 part 2 (version-0.2)](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/mary_the_jewess_by_michael_maier-2111561687-e1725721134923.jpg?w=635)
[Old] Chapter 1 part 2 (version-0.2)
An early draft of deprecated chapter about alchemy, copied from Wikipedia to help me develop my own ideas…
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![[Old] Chapter 1 part 1 (version-0.2)](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1280px-kairo_museum_eisendolch_tutanchamun_01.jpg?w=1024)
[Old] Chapter 1 part 1 (version-0.2)
This deprecated draft chapter started as a historical review of chemistry in the West. This update interweaves its content with Rudolf Steiner’s Riddles of Philosophy. Also used is E.J. Dijksterhuis The Mechanization of the World Picture….
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![[Old] Book Two: Goethe, Steiner and the Ancient Greeks – or – Rethinking the Nature of Substance](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-summer_breviary-renaud_de_bar-2.jpg?w=1024)
[Old] Book Two: Goethe, Steiner and the Ancient Greeks – or – Rethinking the Nature of Substance
This book – if I even manage to write it(!) – will be a big philosophical work. I intend it to be based on a number of ideas and indications I discovered in the course of my researches on the original book…
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[Old] Chapter 17: Conclusions – Rethinking the Nature of Substance [New Ch.21 V0.2]
In this book I hope to have introduced the minimum of knowledge necessary to attain at least the beginnings of an understanding of one of the greatest scientific challenges that I am aware. The existence of the phenomenon of biological transmutation of chemical (isotopic) elements would not be denied by pretty much every scientist on…
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[Old] Chapter 16: Chemistry, the Atom & the Harmony of the Spheres [New Ch.21 V0.1]
In which a synthesis of the previous chapters is attempted, linking them all with biodynamics and the harmony of the spheres.
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[Old] Chapter 15: Nick Thomas – Space and Counterspace [New Ch.19 V0.2]
Nick Thomas, based on indications by Rudolf Steiner, developed a mathematical formulation of his etheric conceptions based on projective geometry. …
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[Old] Chapter 14: Rudolf Steiner – A Spiritual Scientific World View [New Ch.16 V0.1]
Rudolf Steiner took the philosophical ideas which were implicit in the works of Goethe and took them further. Significantly further. It has taken me many years to even begin to understand just some of his philosophical and scientific ideas…
Rethinking the Nature of Substance 