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• Title: Foreword: First Scientific Lecture-Course
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  • The Anthroposophical Movement within
  • good thing for mankind that in this Movement some
  • edition, and on a number of corrections and improvements,
  • knowledge seemed to me to find expression in such men as
  • weight, constitute genuine knowledge. Men did not venture to
  • — no fundamental progress was possible. If a more
  • This mental tendency has become habitual throughout the
  • development which Nature gives the powers of the senses. The
  • saw my essential task, in the fulfilment of which I only had
  • time. Yet side by side with this requirement I had to do full
  • “Competent judgment on the
• Title: Prefatory Note: First Scientific Lecture-Course
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  • from this principle the phenomena of colour which were not
• Title: First Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • fundamental trend and tendency in Science, which should permeate your
  • call the experimental side of Science and what concerns the outlook,
  • the idea, the fundamental views which we can gain on the results of
  • experiment. Today, by way of introduction, — and, as the saying
  • several creatures and phenomena he may form concepts of species, kind
  • and genus. He sub-divides and classifies the beings and phenomena of
  • many single wolves, single hyenas, single phenomena of warmth, single
  • phenomena of electricity are given to the human being, who thereupon
  • attempts to gather up the single phenomena into kinds and species. So
  • “hyena”, likewise he classifies the phenomena into
  • experiment, or by conceptual elaboration of the results of
  • experiment, to arrive at what he calls the “causes” of
  • phenomena. Speaking of causes, our scientists will have in mind
  • “ether” or the like, as underlying the phenomena of light
  • and electricity. From the results of experiment they try to arrive at
  • causes of phenomena, the scientists are always wanting to find their
  • justified to say that when we perceive a phenomenon of light or
  • wave-movement in the ether. They do not pause to think, whether it is
  • the latter being the supposed wave-movement in the ether, or else the
  • the phenomena are spoken of; it still undoubtedly prevails in
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• Title: Second Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • movement. This we can spin, as it were, out of our own life of
  • counted and computed or that is spatial in form and movement, and it
  • external experiences the moment we go beyond what can be counted and
  • respect) still mostly goes on speaking for example of the phenomena
  • space and time, is a movement in the ether. Yet if you look it up in
  • about the phenomena of light, you will find contradictory and
  • simply adduce the essential elements to bring the formula before your
  • the moment, we are considering the movement pure and simple, not its
  • — pressing upon the point for a single moment which of course
  • interests us at the moment is however this: — On the right-hand
  • immense. It cannot find it because it has no real human science,
  • movement. To that extent, the formula is phoronomical. When I write
  • same phenomenon — loss of consciousness — is taking
  • in our consciousness quite neutrally. The moment we go beyond this,
  • observe as an objective phenomenon in Physics, is of great importance
  • outer object in our experiment swims in the water, so does the brain
  • While, with some justice we may regard the brain as the instrument of
  • is the essential feature of the phenomenon of Will. As a conscious
  • phenomenon it is blotted out, extinguished, because in fact the Will
  • in which the life of man unites with the material element that
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• Title: Third Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • phenomenon with the prism — at the end of yesterday's lecture
  • and by. We shall have to go into the phenomena of light and colour
  • prism — the phenomena of colour, in all their polar relation to
  • treatment of light and colour. The strange education we are made to
  • undergo instils this mental habit. Thinking of outer Nature, people
  • For the phenomena of
  • a number of statements as to the way colours arise in and about the
  • prismatic phenomena we were beginning to study yesterday. It was
  • and split up. For in some such way the phenomena were interpreted. If
  • to the bottom of it. He began borrowing and collecting instruments,
  • enough to send him some scientific instruments to Weimar. Goethe
  • wanted his instruments back. Goethe had not yet begun; — it
  • Goethe had to pack the instruments to send them back again. Meanwhile
  • the instruments back, but kept them and went on with his researches.
  • It soon emerged that the phenomenon was not at all as commonly
  • to begin with, make their appearance purely and simply as phenomena
  • primary phenomenon. We are no longer seeing the original phenomenon
  • colours. The latter phenomenon only arises when we take so small a
  • edges stay as they are. This is the primal phenomenon. Colours arise
  • the given facts. However, as you have seen, in these phenomena not
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• Title: Fourth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • placing before you what we may call the “Ur-phenomenon”
  • — primary phenomenon — of the Theory of Colour. By and
  • by, you will find it confirmed and reinforced in the phenomena you
  • Colour. Of course the phenomena get complicated; the simple
  • Ur-phenomenon is not always easy to recognize at once. But if you
  • take the trouble you will find it everywhere. The simple phenomenon
  • Ur-phenomenon: Light through dark — yellow; dark through light
  • This simple phenomenon
  • recall from this point of view the experiment which we have done. We
  • drawing of the phenomenon (see
  • passing through the prism, the light gets darkened. The moment we
  • have the following phenomenon: Looking along here, I see what would
  • with the fundamental fact we have just now been ascertaining. Then,
  • blue or bluish-red. You need but express the primal phenomenon,
  • For the phenomenon we
  • phenomena there has been much intellectual speculation, my dear
  • Friends, in modern time. The phenomena have not merely been observed
  • and stated purely as phenomena, as we have been endeavouring to do.
  • giving rise in us to the phenomenon of red, etc., — this will
  • an experiment of Fresnel's, towards which some preliminary work had
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• Title: Fifth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • shewing, as well as may be with our limited resources, the experiment
  • careful experiment, it is true, we should perceive that everything
  • light above all in 1859 by the famous experiment of Kirchhoff and
  • you will presently see, the elements we are compiling will pave the
  • way to an understanding also of this phenomenon. In the first place
  • to arrange the experiment so as to project the spectrum on to a
  • experiment was shewn to everyone in turn).
  • the following experiment. You now see the complete spectrum projected
  • it were, to close in upon — this very complex phenomenon.
  • alchemical experiments with a kind of Heavy Spar (Barytes). He made
  • exposed this to the light, a strange phenomenon occurred. After
  • phenomenon of after-luminescence — phosphor escence — is
  • not the simplest. Another phenomenon is really the simple one. If you
  • experiment can be made with a variety of other bodies. It is most
  • by another kind of light, we call the phenomenon Fluorescence. And,
  • the phenomena, in a manner of speaking, side by side. What we must
  • try to do is to approach the phenomena rightly with our thinking, our
  • forming of ideas. There is another fundamental idea which you will
  • velocity. The space and time are our own instruments. They are bound
  • and the same element with the so-called bodies whenever we behold
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• Title: Sixth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • other natural phenomena which we shall presently be studying. I will
  • off the experimental part until tomorrow. We must determine still
  • to discern and truly to set forth the facts in the phenomena of
  • Men began studying the
  • phenomena of light in rather recent times, historically speaking.
  • Nay, the whole way of thinking about the phenomena of Physics,
  • the 16th century. The way men thought of such phenomena before the
  • What did they teach you of the phenomenon you see when you observe
  • displacement. Surely this is wrong. For even if I fix my gaze on this
  • what is displaced in these optical phenomena can never be thus
  • abstractly confined. If therefore I repeat Newton's experiment
  • whole theory of the phenomenon upon it. I still ought to speak in
  • really going on when the phenomena of colour comes into being before
  • “I know four men. One of them owns £25, another £50;
  • kind of enrichment when in a light-filled space. We draw the light
  • is a very similar phenomenon, like a cessation of consciousness, when
  • seek the transition from the phenomena of light to the phenomena of
  • looked for the fleeting phenomena of light — phosphorescence
  • and fluorescence — and then the firm and fast phenomena of
  • reflect a little on the facts and we shall recognize an immense
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• Title: Seventh Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • today with an experiment bearing upon our studies of the theory of
  • the usual straight line. We try to gather up the diverse phenomena
  • phenomena as we can before we try to theorize. We want to form a
  • darkness. Today I will begin by shewing you the phenomenon of
  • consider please the following phenomenon; it is most important,
  • therefore I mention it once more. Say in a room you have a red
  • familiar with this phenomenon, and also knew that of the coloured
  • And as an outcome — as with the cushion mentioned just now
  • experiment that the green really is objective. It remains green,
  • hence the phenomenon cannot be one of mere contrast but is
  • will produce the phenomenon and you must now look through on to the
  • [After some careful experiments on a later occasion,
  • on this passage.) He also recommended chemical and photographic
  • with, my dear Friends, along with all the other phenomena which we
  • objective phenomenon of the green is called forth. Now side by side
  • phenomenon, the green that stays there on the screen; though not a
  • real fact. When I am seeing red through my eyes, as at this moment,
  • apparatus is my eye; I see an objective phenomenon through my own
  • eye. It is the same objective phenomenon which I see here, only
  • experiment.
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• Title: Eighth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • speak of the phenomena of sound and tone in the scholastic system
  • of the earliest things to which men became attentive in this
  • domain. They also became attentive to the so-called phenomena of
  • elements. It has first a certain intensity; secondly a certain
  • phenomenon that underlies it — or, shall we rather say,
  • accompanies, runs parallel to it. The usual experiments can easily
  • glass plate. We need not actually do all these experiments, but if
  • movements. These forms of movement are naturally conveyed to the
  • the air between it and us is in movement. Indeed we bring the air
  • itself directly into movement in the instruments called pipes.
  • have gradually discovered what kind of movement it is. It takes
  • movements of the metallic tube are communicated to this air. If we
  • prove by direct experiment that we are dealing with dilutions and
  • experiments; they are at hand, if I may say so. What you can get
  • to the phenomena of Nature spiritual forms of thought such as we
  • Physics nowadays, is fundamentally a product of the said tendency,
  • perceive notes of different pitch. How do the external phenomena of
  • of different pitch? The answer can be shewn by such experiments as
  • experiments of this kind shew how the pitch of the note is
  • is s, the whole wave-movement must be advancing n
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• Title: Ninth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • draw your attention to the development of electrical discoveries,
  • elementary phenomena of electricity. A rod of glass, or it may be
  • emerged from a more detailed observation of these phenomena. The
  • the qualitative descriptions which these phenomena suggest, one
  • brings negative toward itself in some way. You know the phenomenon
  • characteristic phenomena, say, of positive electricity, the other
  • you have often witnessed the experiment.
  • immense and epoch-making technical developments which followed.
  • The effect produced — the development of warmth — may
  • applied it to the most manifold phenomena of Nature, — nor
  • reversing the experiment which we have just described, warmth could
  • too being already conceived at that time as a wave-movement in the
  • all, is a phenomenon not unlike what you would have if here for
  • proof that with electricity something like a wave-movement is
  • generally imagines wave-movements to spread out. Even as light
  • they had begun to imagine wave-movements, since the phenomena of
  • Hertz's experiments proved to be more like a closing chapter of the
  • those experiments where an electric current, which you can generate
  • more intense when the vacuum is higher. Look how a kind of movement
  • phenomenon gets modified. The electricity which otherwise flows
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• Title: Tenth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • can always make visible by experiment. In Science today — and
  • to develop a right way of thinking upon the facts and phenomena
  • as we have seen, the phenomena of light had been brought into a
  • phenomena produced by the passage of electricity through tubes in
  • The phenomena
  • these radiations. Yet in this very experiment we are again
  • element of matter. For you can imagine that a bombardment is taking
  • protected. This can be shewn by Crookes's experiment, interposing a
  • in this way are the Roentgen rays or X-rays, mentioned
  • is the chemical element itself which as it were gives itself up
  • phenomena.
  • may become for you an essential way, not only into these phenomena
  • man sought to follow up the phenomena of Nature, was not
  • evades you. It will not answer the roll-call. In these experiments
  • of phenomenon in the outer world, — but the
  • the 19th-century thinking to penetrate into the phenomena. But this
  • phenomena themselves with human thinking. Now to this end certain
  • (albeit, in a certain sense, from the wrong angle). What men
  • was that they could explain the phenomena so beautifully by means
  • of arithmetic and geometry — by the arrangement of lines,
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