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's Mechanical Foundation of Thermodynamics.Giinther Bierhalter
Electrodynamics in context: object states, laboratory practice and anti-Romanticism.Jed Z. Buchwald
Helmholtz and the civilizing power of science.David Cahan
Introduction: Helmholtz at the Borders of Science.David Cahan
Helmholtz’s empiricist philosophy of mathematics: Between laws of perception and laws of nature.Robert DiSalle
Helmholtz and classicism: The science of aesthetics and the aesthetics of science.Gary Hatfield
Force, law, and experiment: The evolution of helmholtz's philosophy of science.Michael Heidelberger
Between physics and chemistry: Helmholtz's route to a theory of chemical thermodynamics.Helge Kragh
The eye as mathematician: Clinical practice, instrumentation, and Helmholtz's construction of an empiricist theory of vision.Timothy Lenoir
Experiment, Quantification, and Discovery: Helmholtz's Early Physiological Researches, 1843-50.Kathryn M. Olesko & Frederic L. Holmes
Helmholtz and the German medical community.Arleen Tuchman & D. Cahan
Consensus and controversy: Helmholtz on the visual perception of space.R. Steven Turner

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