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The Observer Observed
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The Observer Observed

by Gary Lachman

Apr 20, 2020
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In the following essay Gary Lachman critiques the scientific doctrine of objective observation, traces its origins in Galileo’s thought and considers Goethe’s heretical approach to observation—“active seeing.”

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