In this book I tell the story of the lives of these people and explain some of their thought. Boole put forward an algebra of logic. A World beyond Human Experience . A dog described in a recent news report does that, evidently by detecting certain chemicals associated with the onset of a seizure. It is an example of a sensory capability beyond the human range.
Many animals can sense things that people are unaware of or sense weakly.
Such animals are the subject of the story recounted by Hughes, who is a professor of psychology at Dartmouth College. And he takes pains to pin down the mechanism of the sensory capability in each case. It is an issue that came into sharp focus with the development of the atomic bomb. Schweber is a physicist and a historian of science, serving as professor of physics and professor of the history of ideas at Brandeis University. He brings both talents compellingly to his discussion.