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Elemente der Naturwissenschaft2002,2002Die Abfallentsorgung im 20. Jahrhundert Ein Spiegel unseres Umweltbewusstseins Jörn Heinlein Summary This contribution describes how people related to the waste they produce throughout the ages until the present. Undoubtedly the amount of waste that we discard nowadays is unsustainable. This is also due to its chemical properties.... read more
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Elemente der Naturwissenschaft76,2002ELEMENTE DER NATURWISSENSCHAFT 76 1/2002 Die Grundversuchsanordnungen für die Lichtbeugung an Kanten Hanspeter Seipp Summary The simplest arrangements of edges that give rise to the phenomenon of light diffraction are presented. Especially two of them are of particular importance. They imply two different types of optical imaging and... read more
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Elemente der Naturwissenschaft2002,2002Biogeochemische Stoffkreisläufe des Erdorganismus: Aspekte zur unterschiedlichen Bedeutung der Ozeane und Kontinente Meinhard Simon Summary Intensified research on global biogeochemical cycles in recent decades has led to a holistic concept of the earth, i.e. that it is considered as a self-regulating system, a whole, the biosphere and... read more
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Elemente der Naturwissenschaft76,2002ELEMENTE DER NATURWISSENSCHAFT 76 1/2002 Bewegung in ihrem Bezug zu den Elementen Anregungen aus dem Zweiten Naturwissenschaftlichen Kurs zur Mechanik Wilfried Sommer Summary Starting from Steiner’s ideas about the elements as developed in his Heat Course, we examine free fall as well as the relation between dynamics and kinematics... read more
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Elemente der Naturwissenschaft75,2001ELEMENTE DER NATURWISSENSCHAFT 75 2/2001 Der Begriff des Gegenraumes Oliver Conradt Summary The concept of counter space or negative space is developed from Goethe’s concept of space as described by the young Rudolf Steiner. Whilst the three dimensions of space are based on the relation between two separated objects, the three... read more
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Elemente der Naturwissenschaft75,2001ELEMENTE DER NATURWISSENSCHAFT 75 2/2001 Doppeldrehung und Polarisation Johannes Grebe Gestalt wirkt auf Gestalt.I Rudolf Steiner Summary Based on a discovery of Haidinger, cyclic sequences of images as a result of an interplay of the optical elements analyser, transformer and polarizer are investigated. The change of the image... read more
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Elemente der Naturwissenschaft75,2001ELEMENTE DER NATURWISSENSCHAFT 75 2/2001 Der blaue Planet Erdgeschichtliche Betrachtungen über das Weltmeer Wolf-Christian Dullo Summary Understanding the Earth as a self-contained organism is fundamental to a Goethean approach. But how can we develop a concrete picture of it based on sensorial experience? An autonomous organism is... read more
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Elemente der Naturwissenschaft75,2001ELEMENTE DER NATURWISSENSCHAFT 75 2/2001 Einflüsse unterschiedlicher Behandlungen auf die biologische Wertigkeit von Kuhmilch Untersuchungen mit der Methode der Empfindlichen Kristallisation Haijo Knijpenga Summary The biological value of cow’s milk after pasteurisation and homogenisation was investigated by sensitive crystallisation.... read more
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Elemente der Naturwissenschaft75,2001ELEMENTE DER NATURWISSENSCHAFT 75 2/2001 Getting rid of Metaphysics Ronald H. Brady When Immanuel Kant was awakened from what he termed his «dogmatic slumbers» by reading David Hume, he decided that there could be no justification for the metaphysical speculations of his day, and set out to discredit them. History has judged him correct... read more
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Elemente der Naturwissenschaft74,2001ELEMENTE DER NATURWISSENSCHAFT 74 1/2001 Das Wasser in der Nutzung durch den Menschen Norbert Pfennig Summary The establishment of the first towns of early civilisations after about 3000 BC was made possible through sufficient food supplies from agriculture and the management of drinking water, sewage and rainwater. All human activity... read more