Man or Matter by Ernst Lehrs
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polarities of the first and second order.
XIII. 'RADIANT MATTER' Electricity and magnetism as manifestations of interacting levity and gravity. Electricity - a product of disintegrating matter. Modern physics, no longer a 'natural' science. Eddington's question,' Manufacture or Discovery?' Man's enhanced responsibility in the age of physical science. XIV. COLOURS AS 'DEEDS AND SUFFERINGS OF LIGHT' Goethe's Farbenlehre - the foundation of an optical science based on the colour-seeing faculty of the eye. The modern physicist's view of the Newtonian interpretation of the spectrum. A short history of Goethe's search for a satisfactory conception of Light and Colour. His discovery of Newton's cardinal error. First results of his own studies. The 'negative' spectrum. XV. SEEING AS 'DEED' - I Goethe's way of studying the totality of the act of seeing. The 'inner light'. XVI. SEEING AS 'DEED' - II Extension of Goethe's inquiry to a pursuit of the act of seeing beyond the boundaries of the body. XVII. OPTICS OF THE DOER |
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