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[Old] Chapter 13: Goethe’s World View [New Ch.15 V0.1]

Apr 18, 2020

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was an observer of nature and laid the foundations for a phenomenological science. His collected scientific works were edited by Rudolf Steiner. Goethe’s ideas and methodologies inspired Herzeele, Preuss and Holleman. Holleman recommended that the biological transmutation phenomenon might best be studied using a Goethean scientific methodology. Unfortunately he did not…
[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.

[Old] Chapter 13: Goethe’s World View [New Ch.15 V0.1]