{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 326/1922-12-27/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Later on, interestingly enough, Newton goes somewhat deeper. This is easy to see if one is familiar with his works. Newton becomes ill at ease, as it were, when he contemplates his own view of space. He is not quite comfortable with this space, torn as it is out of man and estranged completely from the spirit. So he defines it after all, saying that space is the sensorium of God. It is most interesting that at the starting point of modern science the very person who was the first to completely mathematize and separate space from man, eventually defines space as God's sensorium,[^5] a sort of brain or sense organ of God. Newton had torn nature asunder into space and man-who-experiences-space. Having done this, he feels inwardly uneasy when he views this abstract space, which man had formerly experienced in union with his god. Formerly, man had said to himself: What my human sensorium experiences in space, I experience together with my god. Newton becomes uneasy, now that he has torn space away form the human sensorium. He has thereby torn himself away from his permeation with the divine-spiritual. Space, with all is mathematics, was not something external. So, in later life, Newton addresses it as God's sensorium, though to begin with he had torn the whole apart, thus leaving space devoid of Spirit and God. But enough feeling remained in Newton that he could not leave this externalized space devoid of God. So he deified it again.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture IV","site_heading":"Mathematics Severed from Human Experience: The Birth of Modern Science","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Man hat vergessen, daß man die Mathematik eigentlich als von Gott eininspiriert erhalten hat. Und Newton wendet die Mathematik ganz in dieser abgesonderten Weise auf die Raumbetrachtung an. Als er seine Prinzipien der mathematischen Naturwissenschaft schreibt, geht er einfach darauf los, und wendet diese abgesonderte Mathematik, also einen konstruierten Raum, an, den er nicht definiert, weil er ein dunkles Gefühl davon hat: Wenn man anfängt den Raum zu definieren, da wird nichts daraus. - Er nimmt also den trivialen Begriff des Raumes, aber er behandelt ihn mit abgesonderter Mathematik, reißt ihn aus den inneren Erlebnissen heraus. So spricht er über die Naturprinzipien. Später vertieft sich das etwas bei Newton. Das ist interessant. Da wird -— man kann das ganz gut bemerken, wenn man bewandert ist in den Newtonschen Schriften —, da wird ihm, ich möchte sagen, nicht wohl dabei, wenn er seine eigene Raumbetrachtung ins Auge faßt. Er kann diesen vom Menschen herausgerissenen Raum, diesen ganz dem Geiste entfremdeten Raum, später nicht recht vertragen. Und da definiert er: Der Raum ist das Sensorium Gottes. Das ist ein ungeheuer interessantes Faktum, daß derjenige Mann im Ausgangspunkte der neueren Naturwissenschaft, der zuerst den Raum ganz mathematisiert, ganz abgesondert hat vom Menschen, daß der dann diesen Raum doch noch definiert als das Sensorium Gottes, also eine Art Gehirnwahrnehmungsorgan Gottes. Auseinandergerissen hatte Newton die Natur in den Raum und den Menschen, der den Raum erlebt. Auseinandergerissen hatte er es nun einmal, aber schwül wurde ihm innerlich, wenn er jetzt den ja vom Menschen losgerissenen Raum betrachtete, den der Mensch früher mit seinem Gotte zusammen erlebt hatte, so daß er sich sagen konnte: Was mein menschliches Sensorium im Raume erlebt, das erlebe ich mit meinem Gotte zusammen; schwül wurde es Newton, da er jetzt den Raum aus dem menschlichen Sensorium herausgerissen hatte. Er hatte dadurch sich selber losgerissen von dem Durchdrungensein mit dem Göttlich-Geistigen. Der Raum war jetzt mit der Mathematik draußen. Und nun spricht er ihn später an als das Sensorium Gottes. Zwar hat er zuerst das Ganze herausgerissen. Dadurch ist es ungeistig und ungöttlich geworden. Aber es steckt noch so viel Empfindung in Newton, daß er den Raum, der nun draußen ist, doch nicht ungöttlich lassen kann, und so vergöttlicht er ihn wieder.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":375,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/326/1922-12-27/p013"}],"english":["GA 326/1922-12-27/p014","GA 326/1922-12-27/p015"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":375,"en_words":351,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6036,"original_word_count":5743,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Maria St. Goar","identified_edition":"AP1985","book_title":"The Origins of Natural Science","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA326/English/AP1985/19221227p01.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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