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Explores the connections between materialist research on the atom and Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science.

Table of Contents

Author's Note
Introduction

I. The Atom - A Historical Background
(i) Prelude in Greece
(ii) Elements and Principles
(iii) The Way of Truth
(iv) Atoms
(v) Roadblock
(vi) Atoms back in Vogue
(vii) Making Waves
(viii) Rudolf Steiner meets the Atom
(ix) Rejection
(x) The Age of Electricity
(xi) The Electrical Atom and Human Thought

II. A Background for Quanta
(i) Origins
(ii) Thermal Radiation
(iii) Enter Max Planck

III. Steiner in the Quantum Age
(i) Physical Science and Spiritual Science
(ii) The Goethean Alternative
(iii) The Primal Phenomenon

IV. Bohr's Atom -- Antecedents
(i) Periodic Tables
(ii) From Siberia with Love
(iii) Predictions and Confusions
(iv) The Hydrogen Spectrum
(v) Cathode Rays
(vi) The Unstable Atom

V. The Rutherford-Bohr Atom
(i) Bohr Gets Involved
(ii) The Hydrogen Atom
(iii) Beyond Hydrogen

VI. Late Words from Rudolf Steiner
(i) A Science of Dead Matter
(ii) The Demonic Atom
(iii) Don't be an Ostrich
(iv) The Struggle for Human Consciousness
(v) So what about the Electron?

VII. The Atom After Steiner
(i) Waves and Particles
(ii) Knabenphysik
(iii) "Thou Shalt Make No Mental Image."
(iv) Discontinuities and Probabilities
(v) HBJ or the Three-Man-Paper
(vi) Schrodinger's Wave Mechanics
(vii) Indeterminacy
(viii) Quantum Physics and the Periodic Table
(ix) More about Probability
(x) Niels Bohr -- A Goethean Physicist?
(xi) Are Particles Real?

VIII. Epilogue
Appendix
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Author

Rudolf Steiner and the Atom

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    Publisher: Adonis Press
    Publication Date: 31/10/2013
    ISBN13: 9780932776440, 978-0932776440
    ISBN10: 0932776442
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Explores the connections between materialist research on the atom and Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science.

    Table of Contents

    Author's Note
    Introduction

    I. The Atom - A Historical Background
    (i) Prelude in Greece
    (ii) Elements and Principles
    (iii) The Way of Truth
    (iv) Atoms
    (v) Roadblock
    (vi) Atoms back in Vogue
    (vii) Making Waves
    (viii) Rudolf Steiner meets the Atom
    (ix) Rejection
    (x) The Age of Electricity
    (xi) The Electrical Atom and Human Thought

    II. A Background for Quanta
    (i) Origins
    (ii) Thermal Radiation
    (iii) Enter Max Planck

    III. Steiner in the Quantum Age
    (i) Physical Science and Spiritual Science
    (ii) The Goethean Alternative
    (iii) The Primal Phenomenon

    IV. Bohr's Atom -- Antecedents
    (i) Periodic Tables
    (ii) From Siberia with Love
    (iii) Predictions and Confusions
    (iv) The Hydrogen Spectrum
    (v) Cathode Rays
    (vi) The Unstable Atom

    V. The Rutherford-Bohr Atom
    (i) Bohr Gets Involved
    (ii) The Hydrogen Atom
    (iii) Beyond Hydrogen

    VI. Late Words from Rudolf Steiner
    (i) A Science of Dead Matter
    (ii) The Demonic Atom
    (iii) Don't be an Ostrich
    (iv) The Struggle for Human Consciousness
    (v) So what about the Electron?

    VII. The Atom After Steiner
    (i) Waves and Particles
    (ii) Knabenphysik
    (iii) "Thou Shalt Make No Mental Image."
    (iv) Discontinuities and Probabilities
    (v) HBJ or the Three-Man-Paper
    (vi) Schrodinger's Wave Mechanics
    (vii) Indeterminacy
    (viii) Quantum Physics and the Periodic Table
    (ix) More about Probability
    (x) Niels Bohr -- A Goethean Physicist?
    (xi) Are Particles Real?

    VIII. Epilogue
    Appendix
    Endnotes
    Bibliography
    About the Author

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