Selected writings of Hermann von Helmholtz.
By: Edited, with introd., by Russell Kahl.
Contributors: Kahl, Russell, ed.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 542
Subjects: Science
Table of contents: title: The conservation of force: a physical memoir.; title: The scientific researches of Goethe.; title: The physiological causes of harmony in music.; title: The application of the law of the conservation of force to organic nature.; title: The relation of the natural sciences to science in general.; title: Recent progress in the theory of vision.; title: The aim and progress of physical science.; title: The origin and meaning of geometric axioms, I.; title: The origin of the planetary system.; title: The relation of optics to painting.; title: The endeavor to popularize science.; title: Thought in medicine.; title: The origin and meaning of geometric axioms, II.; title: The facts of perception.; title: The modern development of Faraday's conception of electricity.; title: An epistemological analysis of counting and measurement.; title: An autobiographical sketch.; title: Goethe's anticipation of subsequent scientific ideas.; title: The origin and correct interpretation of our sense impressions.; title: Introduction to the lectures on theoretical physics (introduction and part II).; title: Bibliography (p. [530]-542)