{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 15/l03/p058","lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We are not necessarily always conscious of the spiritual influences that guide us. For example, such influences led Galileo into the cathedral of Pisa. Thousands of people had seen the old church lamp there, but they did not look at it the way he did. Galileo saw the lamp swing and compared its oscillations with his pulse beats. In this way he discovered that the church lamp swung in a regular rhythm similar to that of his pulse—the “law of the pendulum,” as it is known in modern physics. Anyone familiar with modern physics knows that physics as we know it would not exist if it had not been for Galileo's laws. What was at work in leading Galileo to the swinging lamp in the cathedral—thus giving modern physics its first principles—now works in spiritual science. The powers that guide us spiritually work secretly in this way.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture Three","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":147,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l03/p058","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["AP1992","ASGB1921"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"en","edition":"AP1992","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/15/l03/p058","paragraph_aligned":true}],"german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l03","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 15/l03/p039","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l03/p039"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":142,"en_words":147,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"paired_german":{"status":"paired","german":[{"locus":"GA 15/l03/p039","passage_number":39,"text":"Die geistigen Einflüsse, welche die Menschheit führen, brauchen nicht dadurch zu wirken, daß der Mensch sich ihrer immer bewußt ist. Sie setzen zum Beispiel den Menschen Galilei in den Dom von Pisa. Tausende haben dort die alte Kirchenlampe gesehen, haben aber nicht gesehen wie Galilei. Er sah die Kirchenlampe schwingen, und verglich die Schwingungszeiten mit dem Ablauf seiner Pulsschläge. So fand er, daß in regelmäßigem Rhythmus, dem Pulsrhythmus ähnlich, die Kirchenlampe schwingt. Daraus hat er dann die «Pendelgesetze» gefunden im Sinne der neueren Physik. Wer die heutige Physik kennt, der weiß, daß sie nicht möglich wäre ohne die Galileischen Prinzipien. - So wirkte damals das, was gegenwärtig in der Geisteswissenschaft auftritt; es setzte Galilei hin in den Dom von Pisa vor die schwingende Kirchenlampe, und die heutige Physik bekam ihre Prinzipien. So wirken in geheimnisvoller Art die geistigen führenden Kräfte der Menschheit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":142,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/15/l03/p039"}],"english":["GA 15/l03/p058"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":142,"en_words":147,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.08,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7401,"original_word_count":6840,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 15/l03/p039"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}