Hermann Von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth Century Scienc

Informationen zum Autor David Cahan is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nebraska! Lincoln! and author of An Institute for an Empire: The Physikalisch-Technische Reich-sanstalt! 1871-1918 (1990). Klappentext 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 the first ever to critically assess both his published and unpublished writings.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. Zusammenfassung A biography of Hermann von Helmholtz, a 19th-century scientist renowned for the co-discovery of the second law of thermodynamics and his invention of the ophthalmoscope. It relates how von Helmholtz also made contributions to the fields of physiology, philosophy of science and mathematics.

Product details

• Authors: David Cahan
• Assisted by: David Cahan (Editor), Cahan David (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.01.1994
• EAN: 9780520083349
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08334-9
• No. of pages: 704
• Series: California Studies in the Hist; California Studies in the History of Science; California Studies in the History of Science
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, SCIENCE / History, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Science