‎Martin Charles Noël‎
‎The role of perception in Science‎

‎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)‎

‎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

‎31 black and white illustrations 1993's edition "Contents, Chapitres : Contents, List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Contributors, Abbreviations, Chronological listing of the Principal Events and Publications of Helmholtz's Life and Career, xxix, Text, 666 pages - D. Cahan : Introduction, Helmholtz at the borders of science - 1. Physiologist : Arleen Tuchman : Helmholtz and the German medical community - Kathryn M. Olesko and Frederic L. Holmes : Experiment, quantification and discovery : Helmholtz's early physiological researches, 1843-1850 - Timothy Lenoir : The eye as mathematician : Clinical practice, instrumentation, and Helmholtz's construction of an empirical theory of vision - R. Steven Turner : Consensus and controversy : Helmholtz on the visual perception of space - Richard L. Kremer : Innovation through synthesis : Helmholtz and color research - Stephan Vogel : Sensation of tone, perception of sound, and empiricism : Helmhotz's physiological acoustics - 2. Physicist : Fabio Bevilacqua : Helmhotz's Ueber die Erhaltung der Kraft : The emergence of a theoretical physicist - Jed Z. Buchwald : Electrodynamics in context : Object states, laboratory practice, and anti-romanticism - Walter Kaiser : Helmholtz's instrumental role in the formation of classical electrodynamics - Helge Kragh : Between physics and chemistry : Helmholtz's route to a theory of chemical thermodynamics - Günter Bierhalter : Helmholtz's mechanical foundation of thermodynamics - 3. Philosopher : Michael Heidelberger : Force, law, and experiment : The evolution of Helmholtz's philosophy of science - Robert DiSalle : Helmholtz's empiricist philosophy of mathematics : Between laws of perception and laws of nature - Gary Hatfield : Helmholtz and classicism : The science of aesthetics and the aesthetics of science - David Cahan : Helmholtz and the civilizing power of science - Bibliography and Index - Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz est un scientifique (physiologiste et physicien) prussien, né le 31 août 1821 à Potsdam et mort à Berlin-Charlottenburg en 1894. Il a notamment apporté d'importantes contributions à l'étude de la perception des sons et des couleurs ainsi qu'à la thermodynamique. - Helmholtz a vécu à une époque propice à développer lexpérimentation grâce à un arsenal dinstruments de plus en plus performants, qui prolongent, démultiplient, amplifient, accélèrent le regard des scientifiques sur la nature des phénomènes (et dans ce cas précis, des phénomènes sonores) pour mettre en évidence les explications de certaines observations : la technique a permis de transcrire sous une forme objective des phénomènes inexpliqués ; ainsi, lacoustique progresse considérablement et Helmholtz fonde l'optique physiologique et la psychophysique. (source : Wikipedia)" near fine copy, no markings, the dust-jacket is complete and near fine, minor folding tracks on the spine, the bottom part of the D.J. is very lightly torn on less than 0,5 cms, quite nothing, inside is fine, a very nice copy of this masterwork on Helmholtz‎