order – Creative Combinatorics https://notes.hapke.de as a foundation of creativity, information organisation and art Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:27:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 The private library of Wilhelm Ostwald in Großbothen https://notes.hapke.de/general/the-private-library-of-wilhelm-ostwald-in-grosbothen/ Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:16:01 +0000 http://notes.hapke.de/?p=41 Ostwald’s private library in Großbothen, Saxony – itself a symbol of harmony and order!

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Ostwald’s library

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]]> The philosophy of nature https://notes.hapke.de/general/the-philosophy-of-nature/ Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:06:00 +0000 http://notes.hapke.de/?p=18 The search for harmony and order in combination with Ostwald’s energetic imperative (“Do not waste energy, but convert it into a more useful form”) was a foundation of his activities in the organization of scholarly communication, in the system of scholarly disciplines itself, in colors and forms. He proposed a “science of order” as the […]

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]]> The search for harmony and order in combination with Ostwald’s energetic imperative (“Do not waste energy, but convert it into a more useful form”) was a foundation of his activities in the organization of scholarly communication, in the system of scholarly disciplines itself, in colors and forms. He proposed a “science of order” as the basis of his “pyramid of science”. The need for standardization especially expressed in his ideas about paper formats as well as the need for a synthetic auxiliary language to facilitate international communication of science was also an outcome of his philosophical concept of order.

Pyramid of sciences

  • Wilhelm Ostwald, Die Pyramide der Wissenschaften. Eine Einführung in wissenschaftliches Denken und Arbeiten, (Stuttgart 1929).

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]]> Theory of forms https://notes.hapke.de/information-organisation/theory-of-forms/ Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:43:24 +0000 http://notes.hapke.de/?p=23 In connection with his color theory Ostwald was also engaged in the “harmony of forms”. Using the rules he developed Ostwald created ornaments and new forms “according the laws of combinatorics” which were “all beautiful, without any exception”! Wilhelm Ostwald, Die Welt der Formen : Entwicklung und Ordnung der gesetzlich schönen Gebilde (Leipzig 1922). Wilhelm […]

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Welt der Formen / World of forms

  • Wilhelm Ostwald, Die Welt der Formen : Entwicklung und Ordnung der gesetzlich schönen Gebilde (Leipzig 1922).
  • Wilhelm Ostwald, ‘Warum sind Kristalle schön?’, Hamburger Fremdenblatt 94 (1922) No. 150

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