{"id":62,"date":"2008-05-09T11:27:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T10:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/?p=62"},"modified":"2008-05-09T11:27:01","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T10:27:01","slug":"the-pyramid-of-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/general\/the-pyramid-of-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"The pyramid of sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on Auguste Comte, Ostwald developed within his philosophy of nature a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pyramid of science\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in which a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153science of order\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (he called it also &#8220;Mathetik&#8221;) was the basis.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/uploads\/pyramide1-kl.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/uploads\/pyramide1-kl-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Pyramid of sciences\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-63\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ostwald ordered the sciences within a pyramid. When working on a new topic, e.g. the color theory, he combined the new topic with every layer of his pyramid in a combinatorical way to exhaust all aspect of this subject. So he developed first a basic theory of colors (e.g. EA in the picture), then viewed color theory from a physical (EB), chemical (EC), physiological or biological (ED) and psychological (E?!) view.<\/p>\n<p>Ostwald planned and published a multi-vlolume work on color theory whose partial volumes in each case dealed with one of the views mentioned above. He founded a journal &#8220;Die Frabe&#8221; (The color), starting 1921, which used his monographic principle and ordered the single issues, which contain only one article, according his &#8211; as he called it &#8211; &#8220;Comte-Ostwaldian&#8221; system of concepts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on Auguste Comte, Ostwald developed within his philosophy of nature a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pyramid of science\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in which a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153science of order\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (he called it also &#8220;Mathetik&#8221;) was the basis. Ostwald ordered the sciences within a pyramid. When working on a new topic, e.g. the color theory, he combined the new topic with every layer of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[16,55,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"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=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}