TY  - JOUR
A1  - Knobloch, Eberhard
T1  - Nomos und physis
BT  - Alexander von Humboldt und die Tradition antiker Denkweisen und Vorstellungen
JF  - Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies
N2  - Alexander von Humboldt’s world view, philosophy of science, and scientific practice were dominated by the notions of measure and harmony. This matter of fact does not leave any doubt about Humboldt’s Pythagoreanism. Already the choice of the title of his Kosmos was led by Pythagorean thought. In 1846 he explicitly wrote to Jacobi that the whole first book is based on the idea that the first Hellenic seeds to all further progresses of mathematical natural knowledge are owed to the Pythagoreans and their emphasis on measure, number, and weight. The paper consists of four parts. The first part deals with Humboldt’s acquaintance with the fragments of the Pythagorean Philolaus. The second part compares the Aristotelean tradition with Philolaus’s informations on Pythagoreanism. The third part relying on the two foregoing parts explains Humboldt’s philosophy of science as a tranformation of Pythagoreanism. The last part discusses three examples taken from Humboldt’s scientific practice in order to illustrate the results deduced up to then.
KW  - Aristoteles
KW  - Philolaos aus Kroton
KW  - Pythagoreer
KW  - Wissenschaftsbeziehungen
KW  - Wissenschaftsgeschichte
KW  - Wissenschaftspraxis
KW  - Wissenschaftstheorie
Y1  - 2010
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-51750
SN  - 2568-3543
SN  - 1617-5239
VL  - XI
IS  - 21
SP  - 44
EP  - 54
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -