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Hermann von Helmholtz

Science and Culture

Popular and Philosophical Essays

Edited and with an Introduction by David Cahan
436 pages, 71 engravings  6 x 9  © 1995

Cloth $70.00

ISBN: 9780226326580   Published October 1995

Paper $23.00

ISBN: 9780226326597   Published August 1995

Introduction
Selected Further Readings
1: On Goethe's Scientific Researchers (1853)
2: On the Interaction of the Natural Forces (1854)
3: On the Physiological Causes of Harmony in Music (1857)
4: On the Relation of Natural Science to Science in General (1862)
5: On the Conservation of Force (1862-63)
6: The Recent Progress of the Theory of Vision (1868)
7: On the Aim and Progress of Physical Science (1869)
8: On the Origin and Significance of Geometrical Axioms (1870)
9: On the Origin of the Planetary System (1871)
10: On the Relation of Optics to Painting (1871)
11: On Thought in Medicine (1877)
12: On Academic Freedom in German Universities (1877)
13: The Facts in Perception (1878)
14: Hermann von Helmholtz. An Autobiographical Sketch (1891)
15: Goethe's Presentiments of Coming Scientific Ideas (1892)
Index
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