{"id":18,"date":"2008-03-20T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/?p=18"},"modified":"2008-03-30T17:27:43","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T16:27:43","slug":"the-philosophy-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/general\/the-philosophy-of-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"The philosophy of nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The search for harmony and order in combination with Ostwald&#8217;s energetic imperative (&#8220;Do not waste energy, but convert it into a more useful form&#8221;) 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 &#8220;science of order&#8221; as the basis of his &#8220;pyramid of science&#8221;. 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.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/uploads\/pyramide2-gr.jpg\" alt=\"Pyramid of sciences\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li> Wilhelm Ostwald, Die Pyramide der Wissenschaften. Eine Einf\u00c3\u00bchrung in wissenschaftliches Denken und Arbeiten, (Stuttgart 1929).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The search for harmony and order in combination with Ostwald&#8217;s energetic imperative (&#8220;Do not waste energy, but convert it into a more useful form&#8221;) 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 &#8220;science of order&#8221; as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[41,30,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}