Democritus – Rethinking the Nature of Substance

[Old – from Ch1-2] Chapter 2-2: Ancient Greeks and Early Alchemists V0.4

Sep 15, 2024

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…

Ancient Greek Insights

Sep 15, 2024

I am sad to say that I have chosen to completely rewrite my early drafts of prehistoric and Ancient Greek history almost in their entirety. They are to be replaced by two new and hopefully more relevant chapters. Their replacements concentrate on the possibly controversial Idea of Plato’s Philosopher…

[Old] Chapter 1-Part 3: Version 0.3: The Beginnings and Philosophical Foundations of Chemistry: Ancient Atomists

Sep 7, 2024

A draft of a deprecated chapter on the so-called Ancient Greek atomists…

[Old] Chapter 1-Part 2: Version 0.3: The Beginnings and Philosophical Foundations of Chemistry: Origins of Natural Philosophy

May 21, 2020

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”….

[Old] Chapter 4: The Hypothetical Atom [New Ch.8 V0.2.2]

Apr 11, 2020

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…