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Helmholtz
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Author : David Cahan
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-09-11
Helmholtz written by David Cahan and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Hermann von Helmholtz was a towering figure of nineteenth-century scientific and intellectual life. Best known for his achievements in physiology and physics, he also contributed to other disciplines such as ophthalmology, psychology, mathematics, chemical thermodynamics, and meteorology. With Helmholtz: A Life in Science, David Cahan has written a definitive biography, one that brings to light the dynamic relationship between Helmholtz’s private life, his professional pursuits, and the larger world in which he lived. ? Utilizing all of Helmholtz’s scientific and philosophical writings, as well as previously unknown letters, this book reveals the forces that drove his life—a passion to unite the sciences, vigilant attention to the sources and methods of knowledge, and a deep appreciation of the ways in which the arts and sciences could benefit each other. By placing the overall structure and development of his scientific work and philosophy within the greater context of nineteenth-century Germany, Helmholtz also serves as cultural biography of the construction of the scientific community: its laboratories, institutes, journals, disciplinary organizations, and national and international meetings. Helmholtz’s life is a shining example of what can happen when the sciences and the humanities become interwoven in the life of one highly motivated, energetic, and gifted person.
Helmholtz
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Author : Michel Meulders
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2012-09-14
Helmholtz written by Michel Meulders and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-14 with Science categories.
The first biography in English of a nineteenth-century German scientist whose experimental approach influences today's neuroscience. Although Hermann von Helmholtz was one of most remarkable figures of nineteenth-century science, he is little known outside his native Germany. Helmholtz (1821–1894) made significant contributions to the study of vision and perception and was also influential in the painting, music, and literature of the time; one of his major works analyzed tone in music. This book, the first in English to describe Helmholtz's life and work in detail, describes his scientific studies, analyzes them in the context of the science and philosophy of the period—in particular the German Naturphilosophie—and gauges his influence on today's neuroscience. Helmholtz, trained by Johannes Müller, one of the best physiologists of his time, used a resolutely materialistic and empirical scientific method in his research. His work, eclipsed at the beginning of the twentieth century by new ideas in neurophysiology, has recently been rediscovered. We can now recognize in Helmholtz's methods—which were based on his belief in the interconnectedness of physiology and psychology—the origins of neuroscience.
Helmholtz And The Conservation Of Energy
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Author : Kenneth L. Caneva
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2021-08-03
Helmholtz And The Conservation Of Energy written by Kenneth L. Caneva and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-03 with Science categories.
An examination of the sources Helmholtz drew upon for his formulation of the conservation of energy and the impact of his work on nineteenth-century physics. In 1847, Herman Helmholtz, arguably the most important German physicist of the nineteenth century, published his formulation of what became known as the conservation of energy--unarguably the most important single development in physics of that century, transforming what had been a conglomeration of separate topics into a coherent field unified by the concept of energy. In Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy, Kenneth Caneva offers a detailed account of Helmholtz's work on the subject, the sources that he drew upon, the varying responses to his work from scientists of the era, and the impact on physics as a discipline. Caneva describes the set of abiding concerns that prompted Helmholtz's work, including his rejection of the idea of a work-performing vital force, and investigates Helmholtz's relationship to both an older generation of physicists and an emerging community of reformist physiologists. He analyzes Helmholtz's indebtedness to Johannes Müller and Justus Liebig and discusses Helmholtz's tense and ambivalent relationship to the work of Robert Mayer, who had earlier proposed the uncreatability, indestructibility, and transformability of "force." Caneva examines Helmholtz's continued engagement with the subject, his role in the acceptance of the conservation of energy as the central principle of physics, and the eventual incorporation of the principle in textbooks as established science.
Hermann Von Helmholtz And The Foundations Of Nineteenth Century Science
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Author : David Cahan
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1994-01-12
Hermann Von Helmholtz And The Foundations Of Nineteenth Century Science written by David Cahan and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-12 with Science categories.
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) was a polymath of dazzling intellectual range and energy. Renowned for his co-discovery of the second law of thermodynamics and his invention of the ophthalmoscope, Helmholtz also made many other contributions to physiology, physical theory, philosophy of science and mathematics, and aesthetic thought. During the late nineteenth century, Helmholtz was revered as a scientist-sage—much like Albert Einstein in this century. David Cahan has assembled an outstanding group of European and North American historians of science and philosophy for this intellectual biography of Helmholtz, the first ever to critically assess both his published and unpublished writings. It represents a significant contribution not only to Helmholtz scholarship but also to the history of nineteenth-century science and philosophy in general.
Hermann Von Helmholtz S Mechanism The Loss Of Certainty
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Author : Gregor Schiemann
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-12-11
Hermann Von Helmholtz S Mechanism The Loss Of Certainty written by Gregor Schiemann and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-11 with Philosophy categories.
Focusing on Hermann von Helmholtz, this study addresses one of the nineteenth century’s most important German natural scientists. Among his most well-known contributions to science are the invention of the ophthalmoscope and grou- breaking work towards formulating the law of the conservation of energy. The volume of his work, reaching from medicine to physiology to physics and epis- mology, his impact on the development of the sciences far beyond German borders, and the contribution he made to the organization and popularization of research, all established Helmholtz’s prominence both in the academic world and in public cultural life. Helmholtz was also one of the last representatives of a conception of nature that strove to reduce all phenomena to matter in motion. In reaction to the increasingly insurmountable difficulties that program had in fulfilling its own standards for s- entific explanation, he developed elements of a modern understanding of science that have remained of fundamental importance to this day.
Aesthetics Industry Science
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Author : M. Norton Wise
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-06-15
Aesthetics Industry Science written by M. Norton Wise and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-15 with Science categories.
On January 5, 1845, the Prussian cultural minister received a request by a group of six young men to form a new Physical Society in Berlin. In fields from thermodynamics, mechanics, and electromagnetism to animal electricity, ophthalmology, and psychophysics, members of this small but growing group—which soon included Emil Du Bois-Reymond, Ernst Brücke, Werner Siemens, and Hermann von Helmholtz—established leading positions in what only thirty years later had become a new landscape of natural science. How was this possible? How could a bunch of twenty-somethings succeed in seizing the future? In Aesthetics, Industry, and Science M. Norton Wise answers these questions not simply from a technical perspective of theories and practices but with a broader cultural view of what was happening in Berlin at the time. He emphasizes in particular how rapid industrial development, military modernization, and the neoclassical aesthetics of contemporary art informed the ways in which these young men thought. Wise argues that aesthetic sensibility and material aspiration in this period were intimately linked, and he uses these two themes for a final reappraisal of Helmholtz’s early work. Anyone interested in modern German cultural history, or the history of nineteenth-century German science, will be drawn to this landmark book.
On The Conservation Of Force
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Author : Hermann von Helmholtz
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2023-11-19
On The Conservation Of Force written by Hermann von Helmholtz and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-19 with Nature categories.
"On the Conservation of Force" by Hermann von Helmholtz (translated by Edmund Atkinson). Published by DigiCat. DigiCat publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each DigiCat edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Inverse Problem
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Author : Heinz Lübbig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Inverse Problem written by Heinz Lübbig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Biophysics categories.
This volume is in honour of Hermann von Helmholtz, one of the most famous founders of science in the nineteenth century who also stood at the gateway from classical to modern physics and philosophy. Emphasized is the role of inverse methodology in understanding the concept and theory of physical observation. The volume is concerned with strategies that deal with inference from experimentally observed data regarding the source generating the signal; that is with the logical inversion of cause and effect. The significance is shown of the need for an interpretation of the data which stems from the amount of theory involved in physical experiments. This problem was raised in an early work of Helmholtz (1853). Since then, a powerful mathematical tool has been developed that finds application today in a broad range of problems in physics and physiology, suitable not only for interpretation purposes but also useful as a constructive strategy. The contents of this volume indicate the meaning of inverse methodology within various selected physical and medical contexts. A scientific biography and a presentation of Helmholtz's epistemology indicate his outstanding position in natural philosophy.
Science And Culture
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Author : Hermann von Helmholtz
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1995-10-15
Science And Culture written by Hermann von Helmholtz and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-10-15 with History categories.
Hermann von Helmholtz was a leading figure of nineteenth-century European intellectual life, remarkable even among the many scientists of the period for the range and depth of his interests. A pioneer of physiology and physics, he was also deeply concerned with the implications of science for philosophy and culture. From the 1850s to the 1890s, Helmholtz delivered more than two dozen popular lectures, seeking to educate the public and to enlighten the leaders of European society and governments about the potential benefits of science and technology to a developing modern society. David Cahan has selected fifteen of these lectures, which reflect the wide range of topics of crucial importance to Helmholtz and his audiences. Among the subjects discussed are the origins of the planetary system, the relation of natural science to science in general, the aims and progress of the physical sciences, the problems of perception, and academic freedom in German universities. This collection also includes Helmholtz's fascinating lectures on the relation of optics to painting and the physiological causes of harmony in music, which provide insight into the relations between science and aesthetics. Science and Culture makes available again Helmholtz's eloquent arguments on the usefulness, benefits, and, intellectual pleasures of understanding the natural world. With Cahan's Introduction to set these essays in their broader context, this collection makes an important contribution to the philosophical and intellectual history of Europe at a time when science played an increasingly significant role in social, economic, and cultural life.
Selected Writings Of Hermann Von Helmholtz
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Author : Hermann von Helmholtz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Selected Writings Of Hermann Von Helmholtz written by Hermann von Helmholtz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Science categories.