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Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science , (1. Physiologist : Helmholtz and the German medical community - Experiment, quantification and discovery : Helmholtz's early physiological researches, 1843-1850 - The eye as mathematician : Clinical practice, instrumentation, and Holemholtz's construction of an empirical theory of vision - Consensus and controversy : Helmholtz on the visual perception of space - Innovation through synthesis : Helmholtz and color research - Sensation of tone, perception of sound, and empiricism : Helmhotz's physiological acoustics - 2. Physicist : Helmhotz's Ueber die Erhaltung der Kraft : The emergence of a theoretical physicist - Electrodynamics in context : Object states, laboratory practice, and anti-romanticism - Helmholtz's instrumental role in the formation of classical electrodynamics - Between physics and chemistry : Helmholtz's route to a theory of chemical thermodynamics - Helmholtz's mechanical foundation of thermodynamics - 3. Philosopher : Force, law, and experiment : The evolution of Helmholtz's philosophy of science - Helmholtz's empiricist philosophy of mathematics : Between laws of perception and laws of nature - Helmholtz and classicism : The science of aesthetics and the aesthetics of science - Helmholtz and the civilizing power of science)

1993 · 100273 — University of California Press , California Studies in the History of Science Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1993 Book condition, Etat : Très Bon hardcover, editor's binding, under editor's original purple dust-jacket, illustrated by a portrait of Hermann von Helmholtz fort et grand In-8 1 vol. - 695 pages