Spencer Heath Archive

Item 311

Penned by Heath on notepad paper, an outline for a history of science

May 21, 1958

 

Mendeleev — Periodic Law — Date of

Ancient science — Natural Philosophy

The atom as ultimate

Renaissance science 1500-1700

Galileo — Newton Force x Motion — Mathematicist

Chemical — Atom as ultimate

Energy as something independent of structure Matter

 — mass but requiring a medium of transmission — ether

20th Century science

Dissecting the atom

Intrusion of the quantum

Abandonment of ether

Giving space mechanical properties similar to ether

Return to subjectivism

The quantum trouble

Attempt to reconcile quantum with classic

static conceptions — Dynamic with

static — Planck vs. Euclid

Mass and Energy inter-convertible

Dynamic conceptions gaining

Event coming to be realized as the actual

The quanta as ultimate — building blocks of the Cosmos