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The Rudolf Steiner Archive

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The Light Course
GA 320

Rudolf Steiner's course on Light, which includes explorations of color, sound, mass, electricity and magnetism, presages the dawn of a new world view in the natural sciences that stands our notion of the physical world on its head.

This ‘first course’ in natural science, given to the teachers of the new Stuttgart Waldorf School as an inspiration for developing the physics curriculum, is based on Goethe's approach to the study of nature. Steiner corrects the mechanistic reductionism practised by scientific positivists, emphasizing instead the validity of human experience and pointing toward a revolution in scientific paradigms that would reclaim ground for the subject — the human being — in the study of nature.

Published in German as, Geisteswissenschaftliche Impuls Zur Entwickelung der Physik. Erster naturwissenschaftlicher Kurs. Farbe, Ton, Masse, Elektriitaet, Magnetismus. Authorized English Translation by George Adams M.A. from the 1925 Edition of the Original issued by the Natural Scientific Section of the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland

Foreword by Dr. Guenther Wachsmuth
Prefatory Note
First Lecture December 23rd, 1919
Second Lecture December 24th, 1919
Third Lecture December 25th, 1919
Fourth Lecture December 26th, 1919
Fifth Lecture December 27th, 1919
First Lecture December 28th, 1919
Sixth Lecture December 29th, 1919
Seventh Lecture December 30th, 1919
Eighth Lecture December 31st, 1919
Ninth Lecture January 1st, 1920
Tenth Lecture January 2nd, 1920