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Einleitungen zu Goethes Naturwissenschaftlichen Schriften (1884 - 1897)

Goethean Science

German: Served English: served Read on this site Record (JSON)

German source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalog	published the site's GA catalog
Kind	text the site's GA catalog
ISBN	3-7274-0011-0 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-6490-4 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-0011-7 the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
4	1987	360	the publisher's online catalog
5	2022	740	the publisher's online catalog
	1987		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

19 units in the printed table of contents, about 81,966 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1973.

The units as printed

Heading	Kind	Words
ZUR EINFÜHRUNG	apparatus	411
EINLEITUNG	text	1165
II DIE ENTSTEHUNG DER METAMORPHOSENLEHRE	text	6392
III DIE ENTSTEHUNG VON GOETHES GEDANKEN ÜBER DIE BILDUNG DER TIERE	text	7478
IV ÜBER DAS WESEN UND DIE BEDEUTUNG VON GOETHES SCHRIFTEN ÜBER ORGANISCHE BILDUNG	text	11395
V ABSCHLUSS ÜBER GOETHES MORPHOLOGISCHE ANSCHAUUNGEN	text	1010
VI GOETHES ERKENNTNIS-ART	text	2225
VII UBER DIE ANORDNUNG DER NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHEN SCHRIFTEN GOETHES	text	855
VIII VON DER KUNST ZUR WISSENSCHAFT	text	1615
IX GOETHES ERKENNTNISTHEORIE	text	6710
X WISSEN UND HANDELN IM LICHTE DER GOETHESCHEN DENKWEISE	text	11263
XI VERHÄLTNIS DER GOETHESCHEN DENKWEISE ZU ANDEREN ANSICHTEN	text	6326
XII GOETHE UND DIE MATHEMATIK	text	1099
XIII DAS GEOLOGISCHE GRUNDPRINZIP GOETHES	text	1669
XIV DIE METEOROLOGISCHEN VORSTELLUNGEN GOETHES	text	671
XV GOETHE UND DER NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHE ILLUSIONISMUS	text	1231
XVI GOETHE ALS DENKER UND FORSCHER	text	10763
XVII GOETHE GEGEN DEN ATOMISMUS	text	5733
XVIII GOETHES WELTANSCHAUUNG IN SEINEN «SPRÜCHEN IN PROSA»	text	3955

German text

Served. Taken from the German pages of the Rudolf Steiner Archive (rsarchive.org); the edition and the date of retrieval were not recorded.

Units served	18 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	18 the site's completeness audit
Words served	81939 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.0 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA001/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1973 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Goethean Science the edition's imprint line (GA001/MP1988); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page; the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English) MP1988

Translator	William Lindeman the edition's imprint line (GA001/MP1988); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page; AnthroWiki (English)
Publisher	Mercury Press the edition's imprint line (GA001/MP1988); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page; the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)
Place	Spring Valley, N. Y. the edition's imprint line (GA001/MP1988); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Years	1988
Pages	277 the edition's imprint line (GA001/MP1988); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Translated from	translated from the German the edition's imprint line (GA001/MP1988); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Collected Works	1 the SteinerBooks catalog
ISBN	9781957569321 the SteinerBooks catalog 978-0936132921 AnthroWiki (English)
Identified	by the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page

As the witnesses print it

Goethean Science, Mercury Press, Spring Valley, N. Y., 1988, 277 pp., translated from the German by William Lindeman, ISBN 0-936132-92-2 Paper the edition's imprint line (GA001/MP1988)
Mercury Press, Spring Valley, N. Y., 1988, 277 pp., translated from the German by William Lindeman, ISBN 0-936132-92-2 Paper the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Written in 1883 (CW 1) the SteinerBooks catalog
• [Rudolf Steiner](Rudolf_Steiner): *Goethean Science*, translated by William Lindeman, The Mercury Press 1988, ISBN 978-0936132921 AnthroWiki (English)

Other English translations known

Listed as bibliography. They are not served here; a translation in copyright is named, never reproduced.

Title	Translator	Publisher	Year	ISBN	Rights
Nature's Open Secret: Introductions to Goethe's Scientific Writings the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English) CW 1 the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)	John Barnes and Mado Spiegler AnthroWiki (English)	Witnesses differ: SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog Anthroposophic Press AnthroWiki (English)	2010	9780880107150	in copyright
Goethean Science the SteinerBooks catalog CW 1 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: William Lindeman	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	2018	9780996921121	in copyright
Goethe the Scientist AnthroWiki (English)	H.B. Monges AnthroWiki (English)

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
MP1988	18	5, 11, 2	342	0, 0

A unit is a lecture or chapter; a paragraph pair maps German paragraphs to the English ones that render them. A gap is a German paragraph with no English counterpart, or the reverse. the site's alignment tables

Pictures

Printed in the volume	0 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	8 the site's completeness audit

Quality marks

The served German came from the archive's German pages; no edition or fetch date was recorded. the source record of the served German

Gaps

None recorded.

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Einleitungen zu Goethes Naturwissenschaftlichen Schriften (1884 - 1897) (GA 1), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/1/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/1/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions MP1988.

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Witnesses

Every fact on this page names the witness it comes from. Where witnesses disagree, the page shows each value; none is chosen silently.

the site's alignment tables: ~/data/build/search-2026-10-21b.db · sha256 01257d325bec9eef
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/alignment_summary.json
AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_1
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_1 · read 2026-04-26T16:15:20.422803+00:00
AnthroWiki's English page for the volume
the site's blackboard index: site/api/blackboard.json · 2026-10-21T23:20:03Z
the site's GA catalog: data/steiner/ga_catalog.yaml
the publisher's online catalog: the publisher's GA-Online title list, read 2026-10-19; metadata only
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_online_2026-10-19.json
the source record of the served German: data/steiner/witnesses/german_sources.json
the publisher's catalog of 2022: Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Gesamtverzeichnis 2022 (the publisher's catalog)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsv_gv_2022_entries.json
the edition's imprint line (GA001/MP1988): data/steiner-ga/data/GA001/MP1988/00_toc.md · sha256 787b874c491b24a1
the printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 3c577ac7a97f8bbc
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA001/ · sha256 c36c1c9c5500f77e
the archive's index page for the volume (cached June 2026)
the site's completeness audit: research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-10-21
the SteinerBooks catalog: SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

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