Category: Chapter 05: Alchemy, Medicine and Mysticism
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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 5: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/liebig_company_trading_card_ad_01.12.002_front.tif.jpg?w=640)
[Old] Chapter 1-Part 5: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism
An early draft of a deprecated chapter on Medieval alchemy…
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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] The story so far…](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-summer_breviary-renaud_de_bar-2.jpg?w=1024)
[Old] The story so far…
As I make this sketch it has begun to become apparent which of the ideas form its golden threads and the manner of their appearance. One of those threads is that of the lion of alchemy…
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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 1: The Origins of Chemistry](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/chemistry.jpg?w=1024)
[Old] Chapter 1: The Origins of Chemistry
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 magical qualities. There is something deeply mysterious about it….
Rethinking the Nature of Substance 