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Erinnerungen an die wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit mit Wolfgang Schad
Wolfhard Wimmenauer (8. Mai 1922 - 9. Januar 2023)
Geschichte und Gegenwart des organismischen Denkens in der Biologie
Summary
Throughout the history of biology, there have always been two opposing basic views of life. The one view tried to attribute the processes of life to mechanistic, physical-chemical principles. Rejecting this view, the other one tried to find forces or… Read More
Homoikonik: Laubblatt, Einzelpflanze und Spermatophyten zeigen dieselben drei Bildeprinzipien, die die Alchemie Sal, Merkur und Sulphur nennt.
Homo-iconics (self-imaging) describes how the design type of the spermatophytes, which appears most concisely in the design type of annual dicotyledons, correlates in its imagery with the individual leaf as well as the design of the three divisions of the spermatophytes. Leaf, single plant and spermatophyte type are homoiconic and show at the… Read More
Die Bäume der Erde in ihrer Gestaltbiologie
There are already a number of works on the biology of tree shapes, which primarily deal with conifers and European deciduous trees. In the present essay, an attempt is made to characterize the tree shapes within the worldwide landscape forms and climatic zones more
precisely and to compare them with each other… Read More
Der Wert des typologischen Denkens in der Pflanzensoziologie – seine Bedeutung für Landschaftsentwicklung und Landwirtschaft
Starting from the botanical concept of plant type, the question is raised whether the concept of type can also be applied to plant communities. This is possible with the help of plant sociology, which has developed a comprehensive methodology for this purpose. The individual steps of this procedure are described and brought into relation to… Read More
Goetheanistische Ansätze für die Unterrichtsmethodik am Beispiel der Geometrie
Biological questions, historical-symptomatological investigations, or literary-aesthetic forms of judgment are each based on very specific phenomena. The cognitive method of phenomenological thinking is affected by the object to be considered. They call for a different framework of treatment, which is related to the specifics of the subject.… Read More
Nachruf auf Mathias Küster (24.11.1950 – 27.07.2022)
The human I-organisation and the silicic process
While the image of the hard transparent hexagonal prisms of rock crystal (quartz) suffices to illustrate the general role of silicic acid in the human organism, other aspects can contribute to a differentiated understanding of the distribution and dynamics of silicic acid in relation to the human I-organisation, self-consciousness and warmth.… Read More
