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For today's Goethe researchers, especially for those who write Goethe biographies - well, they really are among the most terrible people today; today we have seen that an Englishman has written the latest Goethe biography, which is praised throughout paper Germany as something incredibly high, a book that only shows us how, when such an inferior spirit describes Goethe, it also makes him an inferior spirit; No man can rise above himself, and it is only too understandable that the same thing happens to Goethe when such a man takes aim at him - well, people naturally have no idea how precisely and diligently Goethe worked where it mattered to him to establish great scientific facts. There are endless rows of tables, set out in drawings, where Goethe tried to determine the air pressure for the most diverse places in Europe. He wanted to show that the barometer reading did not depend on random air currents and external influences from the moon and celestial bodies, but that the barometer reading showed a regular level, so that the air on the whole earth became thinner (at one point) and denser (at another point). And Goethe wanted to show this through the barometer reading by tracking the fall and rise in tabular form.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"23. The Influences of the Sun and Moon on Man","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-12-12","location":null,"word_count":332,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1909-12-12/p020","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19091212s01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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