Hauschka – Rethinking the Nature of Substance

[Old] Chapter 6: Hauschka, Herzeele and Baumgartner [New Ch.9 V0.4]

Apr 13, 2020

For this chapter I have a lot of homework to do… I need to (re-)read Rudolf Hauschka’s The Nature of Substance (Substanzlehre). Meanwhile an outline of what I recall…

[Old] Chapter 3: Herzeele, Goethe, Preuss [New Ch.9 V0.3]

Apr 10, 2020

By the 1840s mainstream scientists appear to have concluded that living organisms obey the same physical and chemical laws as inorganic nature. During the course of the nineteenth century their experiments increasingly supported this belief. However, some noteworthy exceptions existed. Albrecht von Herzeele was one of the most significant for this book.