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Elemente der Naturwissenschaft122,2025The continuous growth of the leafy stem of stinking hellebore (Helleborus foetidus) is halted after several years by the flowering process, which would lead to the death of the stem. The plant gets around this by producing new basal shoots... read more
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Elemente der Naturwissenschaft122,2025A research method is presented that takes up one of Rudolf Steiner’s suggestions for attaining imaginative experiences: sensory perceptions are expressed in painted pictures without forming concepts. In applying this method, inner activity becomes the... read more
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Elemente der Naturwissenschaft122,2025In an earlier article, the author dealt with questions of aligning the anthroposophical spiritual-scientific evolutionary epochs, as determined by Rudolf Steiner, with the geological time scale. He came to the conclusion that the separation of the... read more
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Elemente der Naturwissenschaft122,2025Means of diversifying methodological approaches include varying research questions and ways of asking them. This paper suggests that a diversity of qualitative approaches strengthens the research itself, and is of particular use in Goethean-driven... read more
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Elemente der Naturwissenschaft121,2024What appears at first glance to be very specialised microbiological insider knowledge, on closer inspection turns out to be an insight with revolutionary potential. With the increasing depth of our molecular and genetic analytical capabilities, a... read more
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Elemente der Naturwissenschaft121,2024In this paper, I focus on the observation of thinking that Rudolf Steiner indicates in his Philosophy of Freedom. In an article on the same subject, R. Ziegler (2023) progresses from the usual sense oriented and thought experiments to what he calls... read more
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Elemente der Naturwissenschaft122,2025Today, Goethe is best known for literary works such as his version of Faust. However, he also carried out many scientific studies. His Farbenlehre, which can be translated as Theory of Colours, was his most developed scientific work, first published in German in 1810.
Goethe’s theory contains four main... read more
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Elemente der Naturwissenschaft122,2025
Vor vielen Jahren erhielt ich einen prächtigen Bildband geschenkt: Art Wolfe, Kunst der Tarnung (2006). Die Fotografien darin gefielen mir. Das Vorwort, von der amerikanischen Biologin Barbara Sleeper geschrieben – nun, das hatte auch was. Zum Motto gewählt war das Zitat einer anderen Biologin, Mary Batten: «Die Evolution favorisiert... read more
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Elemente der Naturwissenschaft122,2025
Beim diesjährigen Treffen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft am letzten Februarwochenende in Stuttgart deckten die Vorträge wieder ein breites Spektrum von Themen ab und zugleich wurde die Vielfalt der individuellen Forschungszugänge deutlich.
Im ersten Vortrag gab der hier Berichtende einen komprimierten Überblick über den ... read more