Frank Chester is an artist, sculptor and geometrican who lives in San Francisco. He has taught art for more than thirty years in high schools and colleges. Since encountering the work of Rudolf Steiner, Frank has been exploring the relation between form and spirit. This has led him to do research on the number seven and discovered a new geometric form never seen before. Currently he teaches sacred geometry in the Waldorf teacher training program in San Francisco.
This is a sculpture of Frank's 7 sided form consisting
of 4 triangles and 3 quadrilaterals, 7 points and 12 edges.
Here is a list of a few of the books I own out of Goethean Science, along with a few comments (these are not all that can be studied, perhaps less than 1%, although they are the most basic):
Man or Matter: Introduction to a Spiritual Understanding of Nature on the Basis of Goethe's Method of Training Observation and Thought. Written by Ernst Lehrs PhD, and for 25 years a Waldorf High School Science teacher. This is the basic book for learning about Goethe's methods, and is basically a book of physics, but one which, in working goetheanistically, is more descriptive and less theoretical. It also is anchored in a history of natural science, and reveals not only the long development of natural science, but how and where at various places missteps were taken leading to the present confusion.
Projective Geometry: Creative Polarities in Space and Time, by Olive Whicher. Just as Steiner's works on epistemology represent the King of the Sciences (Philosophy) this book concerns the Queen of the Sciences - the most modern and universal geometry. In this book we learn by drawing, and need only a large piece of paper, and pencil and a straight edge. Projective Geometry needs no measure.
The Plant (vols. I and II) by Gerber Grohmann. A wonderful set of books examining the "speaking" of plants as they teach us all their secrets - no analysis in the laboratory is necessary, only careful observation and thought.
The Nature of Substance, by Rudolf Hauschka. A new and amazing look at Chemistry, including highly unusual experiments.
Sensative Chaos: The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air, by Theodor Schwenk. All that receives form, takes up its form when in a fluid state. Here are observed the fundamental laws which flowing forms reveal about these processes which are everywhere in Nature.
Man and Mammals: Toward a Biology of Form, by Wolfgang Schad. Steiner's idea of the three-fold nature of human form becomes the clue by which a whole new way of understanding the relationships of mammals to each other, and how and why Man himself is clearly not an animal. Among Schad's interesting observations is that it is not that the human being has hands which distinguish him from most of the animal kingdom, but rather the form of his feet which allows him to stand upright, freeing the upper limbs to take on activities no animal can do (make art and music etc.)
The Living Earth, by Walther Cloos. A re-examination of geology which points out how it is that a proper "reading" of the geological record reveals that rocks come from life processes in the same way that bones (the solid parts) appear in the human embryo only out of the already living substance.
Agriculture of Tomorrow, by E. and L. Kolisko. A lengthy report on a number of experiments proving the influence of the moon and planets on plant growth and development.
Weather and Cosmos, by Dennis Klocek, which is not based upon astrology, but actually is a development of certain overlooked observations made by Kepler, the father of the three laws of planetary motion. Kepler himself asserted his third law was a rediscovery of the ancient's idea of the Harmony of the Spheres.
Evolution and the New Gnosis: anti-establishment essays on knowledge, science, religion and casual logic, by Don Cruse with Robert Zimmer. A series of essays re-examining the fundamental thinking behind Darwinian theory, revealing the logical flaws.
Besides reading these books, one should also visit frequently The Nature Institute: http://www.natureinstitute.org/index.htm In addition, websites on Biodynamic Agriculture and Anthroposophical Medicine are very scientific in a goethean sense.
Owen Barfield's books on language are also "goethean" in a wider sense of the meaning of that form of thinking (which could also be called "organic" thinking, and was taught in Steiner's A Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Conception). I used that form of thinking in my beginning research into the social organism, although later it was the pure thinking of PoF that lead me to the discovery of the Second Eucharist in the Ethereal, that has accompanied the True Second Coming.
It seems to me different post u know,i didn watch video clips but ya i saw sculpture of 7 sided form consisting
of 4 triangles and 3 quadrilaterals, 7 points and 12 edges...it looks different,actually i was surfing net to get data related to my project no testking 642-524 and in the meantime came here and find this post different one specially this sculpture...color,size,triangles,edges all are different...
Frank Chester is an artist, sculptor and geometrican who lives in San Francisco. He has taught art for more than thirty years in high schools and colleges. Since encountering the work of Rudolf Steiner, Frank has been exploring the relation between form and spirit. This has led him to do research on the number seven and discovered a new geometric form never seen before. Currently he teaches sacred geometry in the Waldorf teacher training program in San Francisco.
This is a sculpture of Frank's 7 sided form consisting
OUTSTANDING!!!
I'm blown away!
What has Goethean Science Produced?
Has Goethean science produced anything more than a 7 sided sculpture, flowforms and astrology based weather forecasting?
yes, a great deal more there is to Goethean Science.
Here is a list of a few of the books I own out of Goethean Science, along with a few comments (these are not all that can be studied, perhaps less than 1%, although they are the most basic):
Man or Matter: Introduction to a Spiritual Understanding of Nature on the Basis of Goethe's Method of Training Observation and Thought. Written by Ernst Lehrs PhD, and for 25 years a Waldorf High School Science teacher. This is the basic book for learning about Goethe's methods, and is basically a book of physics, but one which, in working goetheanistically, is more descriptive and less theoretical. It also is anchored in a history of natural science, and reveals not only the long development of natural science, but how and where at various places missteps were taken leading to the present confusion.
Projective Geometry: Creative Polarities in Space and Time, by Olive Whicher. Just as Steiner's works on epistemology represent the King of the Sciences (Philosophy) this book concerns the Queen of the Sciences - the most modern and universal geometry. In this book we learn by drawing, and need only a large piece of paper, and pencil and a straight edge. Projective Geometry needs no measure.
The Plant (vols. I and II) by Gerber Grohmann. A wonderful set of books examining the "speaking" of plants as they teach us all their secrets - no analysis in the laboratory is necessary, only careful observation and thought.
The Nature of Substance, by Rudolf Hauschka. A new and amazing look at Chemistry, including highly unusual experiments.
Sensative Chaos: The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air, by Theodor Schwenk. All that receives form, takes up its form when in a fluid state. Here are observed the fundamental laws which flowing forms reveal about these processes which are everywhere in Nature.
Man and Mammals: Toward a Biology of Form, by Wolfgang Schad. Steiner's idea of the three-fold nature of human form becomes the clue by which a whole new way of understanding the relationships of mammals to each other, and how and why Man himself is clearly not an animal. Among Schad's interesting observations is that it is not that the human being has hands which distinguish him from most of the animal kingdom, but rather the form of his feet which allows him to stand upright, freeing the upper limbs to take on activities no animal can do (make art and music etc.)
The Living Earth, by Walther Cloos. A re-examination of geology which points out how it is that a proper "reading" of the geological record reveals that rocks come from life processes in the same way that bones (the solid parts) appear in the human embryo only out of the already living substance.
Agriculture of Tomorrow, by E. and L. Kolisko. A lengthy report on a number of experiments proving the influence of the moon and planets on plant growth and development.
Weather and Cosmos, by Dennis Klocek, which is not based upon astrology, but actually is a development of certain overlooked observations made by Kepler, the father of the three laws of planetary motion. Kepler himself asserted his third law was a rediscovery of the ancient's idea of the Harmony of the Spheres.
Evolution and the New Gnosis: anti-establishment essays on knowledge, science, religion and casual logic, by Don Cruse with Robert Zimmer. A series of essays re-examining the fundamental thinking behind Darwinian theory, revealing the logical flaws.
Besides reading these books, one should also visit frequently The Nature Institute: http://www.natureinstitute.org/index.htm In addition, websites on Biodynamic Agriculture and Anthroposophical Medicine are very scientific in a goethean sense.
Owen Barfield's books on language are also "goethean" in a wider sense of the meaning of that form of thinking (which could also be called "organic" thinking, and was taught in Steiner's A Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Conception). I used that form of thinking in my beginning research into the social organism, although later it was the pure thinking of PoF that lead me to the discovery of the Second Eucharist in the Ethereal, that has accompanied the True Second Coming.
joel
RE:Frank Chester
It seems to me different post u know,i didn watch video clips but ya i saw sculpture of 7 sided form consisting
of 4 triangles and 3 quadrilaterals, 7 points and 12 edges...it looks different,actually i was surfing net to get data related to my project no testking 642-524 and in the meantime came here and find this post different one specially this sculpture...color,size,triangles,edges all are different...
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