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Title: | Wilhelm Ostwald’s combinatorics as a link between in-formation and form |
Author(s): | Hapke, Thomas |
Subject(s): | Information and Space
Spatial Analogies Wilhelm Ostwald Combinatorics |
Abstract: | The combinatorial thinking of the chemist and Nobel laureate Wilhelm Ostwald grew out of his activities in chemistry and was further developed in his philosophy of nature. Ostwald used combinatorics as an analogous, creative, and interdisciplinary way of thinking in areas like knowledge organization and in his theory of colors and forms. His work marginally influenced art movements like the German Werkbund, the Dutch De Stijl, and the Bauhaus. Ostwald’s activities and his use of spatial analogies such as bridge, net, or pyramid can be viewed as support for a relation between information—or “in-formation,” or Bildung (education, formation)—and form. |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Citation Info: | In Library Trends 61 (2) Fall 2012: 286-303. |
Genre: | Article |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89740 |
ISSN: | 0024-2594 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2012.0041 |
Publication Status: | published or submitted for publication |
Rights Information: | Copyright 2012 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2016-03-31 |
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Library Trends 61 (2) Fall 2012: Information and Space: Analogies and Metaphors
Library Trends 61 (2) Fall 2012: Information and Space: Analogies and Metaphors. Edited by Wouter Van Acker and Pieter Uyttenhove