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• Title: Prefatory Note: First Scientific Lecture-Course
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  • “May scientists and thinkers
• Title: First Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • shall at most be able to contribute a few side-lights which may help
  • contribute may well be of use to those of you who are teachers and
  • friend Dr. Stein has kindly been recalling, I may add one more. It
  • these lectures to establish a certain harmony between what we may
  • already undergoing transformation, and there are signs which we may
  • outline) may still be said to be prevailing.
  • several creatures and phenomena he may form concepts of species, kind
  • in many single experiences. Now we may say, this first important
  • of Physics. There is one thing however to which we may draw attention
  • kind. Hence too for Goethe in the last resort there are not what may
  • phenomenon as it may first present itself, where it is complicated
  • One fact may throw
  • reference to the outer world. We may count peas as well as electrons.
  • ourselves. We may make outer drawings on them, but this is only to
  • serve mental convenience, not to say inertia. Whatever we may
  • Thus we may truly say:
  • externally. Thus in conclusion we may say: while we derive the
  • Now we may well feel driven to enquire: What then is a mass? What is
  • “mass” in this Universe. Howsoever I may think it out, I
  • will adduce one more example. Even as we may think of the unit
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• Title: Second Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • those among you who may no longer recall it from your school days can
  • call the velocity v. This velocity, once more, may be
  • greater or it may be smaller. So long as we go no farther than to
  • “something” may be bigger or it may be smaller;
  • on long enough you will lose consciousness. You may conclude that the
  • While, with some justice we may regard the brain as the instrument of
  • indeed high time, if I may say so, for Physics to get a little grit
  • we may describe as blue and kindred colours — indigo and violet
  • — or a small circular opening, we may assume to begin with
  • in this case, whatever modifications may be due to the plates of
  • downward region the red or yellow colours. So therefore we may say:
• Title: Third Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • terms of qualities as you are here, you may well be saying to
  • the cylinder of light apart. If I may so express myself, you can read
  • with it the whole floor of the vessel lifted upward. We may go into
  • retina is most sensitive of all. We may begin by saying that it is
  • wisdom, if I may so put it, from the side of Nature — this you
  • may also tell from the following fact. During the day when you look
  • there is one more experiment I wish to shew today, and from it we may
  • black circle in the middle of the disc, so that the grey may appear
• Title: Fourth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • placing before you what we may call the “Ur-phenomenon”
  • therefore we may say: the original bright light, diverted as it is,
  • bright the cylinder of light itself may be, you still see it through
  • lighted up. However light the cylinder of light may be, you see it
  • studied first — that on the screen — you may use the name
  • medium or not as the case may be, arriving at the screen and there
  • what will happen here? When the train of waves arrives here, it may
  • kind of relation to it, it may well have a dimming or even
  • drawing of it. We may have what I shewed you yesterday — a
• Title: Fifth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • shewing, as well as may be with our limited resources, the experiment
  • lead us on the way. Even in the 17th Century, we may remember, when
  • we may say: what in effect is Phosphorescence? It is a Fluorescence
  • (if I may say this in passing), people are still too much obsessed
  • You may imagine therefore: Say you have gradually filled the dark
  • the light (or, if you will, you may say, in the light-ether; the word
  • You must refer it to an astral relation to the light. But you may
  • This therefore — from A to C, say — may
  • not what you can get from the first text-book you may purchase. Nor
• Title: Sixth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • start from a particular instance wherein we may compare the way of
  • instance I may perhaps want to refer to some isolated light, but even
  • is this light, which may be stronger or weaker related to darkness?
  • negatively filled with darkness. Thus we may be confronting a space
  • positive”. Or we may be confronting a space that is filled with
  • a certain strength. Now we may ask: How does the positive filling of
  • we may compare the feeling we have, when given up to a light-filled
  • ourselves to the darkness. Thus we may say: the effect of light upon
  • have two heavenly bodies. You may then say: These two heavenly bodies
  • it may be — all around and in between the two heavenly bodies.
  • real abstraction; you may not call it a reality by itself.
  • or Sun and Earth, each by itself, you may of course invent and add to
  • inorganic. Whatever else we may call inorganic only exists by
  • proceed very abstractly we may argue: “We perceive sound
  • we may say: here something similar must be at work. Some kind of
  • different colours. By calculation one may even explain from the
  • warmth, and of electro-magnetics; also whatever explanations may
• Title: Seventh Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • idea of Goethe's is mistaken, as you may readily convince
  • in realizing this we may also become aware of something more.
  • differentiated form so that we may be able to perceive —
  • what may itself be described as an organism of vibrations, highly
  • environment and perceive the difference, whatever it may be. Here
  • was especially Julius Robert Mayer who drew attention to this fact,
  • which was then worked out more arithmetically. Mayer himself
• Title: Eighth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • description of modern Physics may be said to date back to the 15th
  • a first approximation it is not difficult to find what may be
  • such a thing as a velocity of light, you may then call the time
  • air and we may therefore say that when we hear any sounding body
  • experiments; they are at hand, if I may say so. What you can get
  • channels even in the theory of sound. It is so evident, they may
  • they may well contend. There are the waves of condensation and
  • type. This you do not wind up. In favourable circumstances you may
  • Times without number you may have this experience. You are at table
  • of a violin-string which one may still interpret crudely and
  • describe the human ear, and in a purely external sense we may aver:
  • — we may even elaborate a general physiology of the senses
  • air. Remember too what I was saying: a thing may look complete and
  • of the pecten, these I may rightly compare to what expands in the
  • that sound or tone may cause misgivings. Is it not evident that in
• Title: Ninth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • explanations may be rounded off, to give you something more
  • elementary phenomena of electricity. A rod of glass, or it may be
  • whatever it may be, is brought about by friction. And — here
  • may in some sense be described as “physiological
  • Julius Robert Mayer, the brilliant Heilbronn doctor had discovered.
  • The effect produced — the development of warmth — may
  • what began in Julius Robert Mayer's work and then developed ever
  • — so we may somehow express it. Now Hertz made this very
  • space we could put two such “inductors”, as we may call
  • second mirror, and an image arises here. We may then say, the light
  • taken by the electricity. Thus we may say: What otherwise goes
  • may so express myself — the inner character of electricity,
  • there from pole to pole, (or howsoever we may describe it;
  • making certain computations, from the deflection one may now deduce
  • explosions of force, if we may so describe them, which can be
  • in what may be described as the electrical domain. Moreover, all of
  • The text-book knowledge I may none the less bring forward, is only
• Title: Tenth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • which may help you in developing such thoughts about Nature for
  • may gather that the cross stops the rays. Observe it clearly,
  • may become for you an essential way, not only into these phenomena
  • objective powers of the World, if I may put it so, — those
  • will no longer be 180°, but may be larger. That is to say,
  • including the forces? Whence do we get these ideas? We may commonly
  • Nature. Cool and sober as it may seem, it is a dream — a
  • therefore are the realms, in Nature and in Man, which we may truly
  • Yet, little as it is, I think what has been given may be of help to
  • spirit with which these lectures — if we may take them as a
  • too, you may derive some benefit. I am sorry it was necessary to go
  • practical example of this course, I think I may have contributed to
  • held on the 1st of May 1918, — please mark the date! This
  • will have to alter! So may the Waldorf School be and remain a place