Category: Chapter 04: Nominalism: Elements, Atoms and Change
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![[Old – from Ch1-2] Chapter 2-2: Ancient Greeks and Early Alchemists V0.4](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/nuremberg_chronicles_f_72v_2-parmenides-big.webp?w=1024)
[Old – from Ch1-2] Chapter 2-2: Ancient Greeks and Early Alchemists V0.4
Technological innovations may have been developed by this time, but their conception was not seen as we do today. They were not created or understood by means of abstract thought, but through imaginative (creative, but exact) thought pictures…
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![[Old] Chapter 1-Part 4: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism: Plato & Aristotle – Matter & Substance](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/801px-plato_in_nuremberg_chronicle_lxxiiiv-1918879990-e1725717021405.jpg?w=801)
[Old] Chapter 1-Part 4: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism: Plato & Aristotle – Matter & Substance
A draft version of a deprecated chapter about the later classical philosophers, including the Sophists, Plato, Aristotle and the Epicureans…
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![[Old] Chapter 1-Part 3: Version 0.3: The Beginnings and Philosophical Foundations of Chemistry: Ancient Atomists](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/plato_anaxagoras__democritus_wellcome_m0009604-689607957-e1725717622223.jpg?w=1024)
[Old] Chapter 1-Part 3: Version 0.3: The Beginnings and Philosophical Foundations of Chemistry: Ancient Atomists
A draft of a deprecated chapter on the so-called Ancient Greek atomists…
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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 (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] Chapter 5: Radioactivity, Isotopes and the Taming of the Atom[New Ch.13 V0.1.2]](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/katodsugarak_magneses_mezoben-bw.jpg?w=961)
[Old] Chapter 5: Radioactivity, Isotopes and the Taming of the Atom[New Ch.13 V0.1.2]
The so-called uncuttable atom proved to hold a deeper secret. Something of that story is given in the second half of the Wikipedia article on Atomic Theory…
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![[Old] Chapter 4: The Hypothetical Atom [New Ch.8 V0.2.2]](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/perrin_jean_e28093_atomes_1913-4216025616-e1725795364947.jpg?w=936)
[Old] Chapter 4: The Hypothetical Atom [New Ch.8 V0.2.2]
The story of the atom is a long and complex one. Their existence was hypothesised largely because they were easy to imagine and even easier to mathematize – as easy as one, two, three! They were generally considered to be very small, solid and like billiard balls in their collisions. Some believed that they possessed…
Rethinking the Nature of Substance 