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The foot - the most human limb

Physical support and movement are basic functions of the foot in standing and walking, demonstrating the action of gravity and metamorphosed sunlight as the energy source for all active body movements. Calcium is a substance with a special relation to gravity and bone. ln relation to phosphorus/calcium… Read More

Contributions of clinical rhythm research to therapeutic physiology

In the controversy between different medical approaches (conventional, alternative etc.), dogmatically holding to one’s own position is as unproductive as polemical attacks on the approaches of others.

In clinical chronobiology and chronomedicine there is… Read More

Tycho Brahe and his modern significance - 14th December 1546 - 24th October 1601

On 24th October 1601 Tycho Brahe died. His life-work enabled Johannes Kepler’s discovcry of the so called Kepler’s laws. With Brahe and Kepler a thousand year old striving for the mathematical description of the planets’ orbits rcached its culmination.… Read More

Johannes Müller in the 19th century - destiny of his life and work

Johannes Müller (1801-1858) was not only the leading German physiologist in the first half of the 19th century but the teacher of a whole generation of natural scientists including Hermann von Helmholtz, Ernst Brücke, Carl Ludwig, Emil Du Bois-Reymond, Rudolf Virchow and… Read More

Transformation forces of the air

a contribution to the chemistry main lesson of the 9th class of Waldorf schools

We present a guide for the chemistry main lesson of the 9th class of Waldorf schools, especially taking into account the characteristics of animal and human catabolism (linking up With the overview of plant anabnlism… Read More

The native species of the genus Hypericum compared

In Middle Europe the genus Hypericum is divided into six sections systemizing ten Hypericnm species according to morphological characteristics. In our proposed order, Hypericum perfomtum as a mesophil perennial plant is positioned between the related hygro- and xerophil species. Within… Read More

Cephalopods, snails and bivalves in their organismic relationship

This contribution was first published in 1973 by Thomas Göbel after mutual discussions on the subject. It is reprinted here enlarged and supported by further details. The main point is to demonstrate how the molluscs can also show the scientific fruitfulness of a… Read More