Hermann Von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science

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University of California Press (1993)
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David Cahan has assembled an outstanding group of European and North American historians of science and philosophy for this intellectual biography of Helmholtz, ...

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Helmholtz and the German medical community.  (pages 17--49)Arleen Tuchman & D. Cahan
Experiment, Quantification, and Discovery: Helmholtz's Early Physiological Researches, 1843-50.  (pages 66--67)Kathryn M. Olesko & Frederic L. Holmes
The eye as mathematician: Clinical practice, instrumentation, and Helmholtz's construction of an empiricist theory of vision.  (pages 109--153)Timothy Lenoir
Consensus and controversy: Helmholtz on the visual perception of space.  (pages 154--203)R. Steven Turner
Introduction: Helmholtz at the Borders of Science.  (pages 197--206)David Cahan
Electrodynamics in context: object states, laboratory practice and anti-Romanticism.  (pages 345--368)Jed Z. Buchwald
Between physics and chemistry: Helmholtz's route to a theory of chemical thermodynamics.  (pages 403--431)Helge Kragh
Helmholtz's Mechanical Foundation of Thermodynamics.  (pages 432--458)Giinther Bierhalter
Force, law, and experiment: The evolution of helmholtz's philosophy of science.  (pages 461-497)Michael Heidelberger
Helmholtz’s empiricist philosophy of mathematics: Between laws of perception and laws of nature.  (pages 498--521)Robert DiSalle
Helmholtz and classicism: The science of aesthetics and the aesthetics of science.  (pages 522--58)Gary Hatfield
Helmholtz and the civilizing power of science.  (pages 559--601)David Cahan

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