Readings in Goethean Science

Wyoming, R.I.: Bio-Dynamic Farming and Gardening Association, Inc. , 1978. First Edition. Octavo in pink blue and orange pictorial wraps; 60p; illustrations; 22cm Very good (+); some light external wear to wraps; pages are clean and binding solid. Paperback.

"Nature's Law is perceived as compulsion only so long as man looks upon it as an alien power. If he penetrates its true being, it is experienced as a force which he himself uses in his inner being; he feels himself to be an element co-operating productively in the "being and becoming" of things." --Rudolf Steiner in Goethe's Conception of the World. Notes: Translation of extracts from J.W. Goethe's scientific works and of R. Steiner's Unorganische Natur and Organische Natur, pts. 15-16 of his Grundlinien einer Erkenntnistheorie der Goetheschen Weltanschauung. Contents: Goethe, J.W. From the scientific writings of Goethe: Nature. Explanatory words on the essay "Nature". Happy encounter. Perceptive judgment. Experiment as mediator between object and subject. Steiner, R. From A theory of knowledge implicit in Goethe's world conception: Inorganic nature. Organic nature.