"A Case of Coloured Thinking with Thought-forms and Linked Sensations", in "Nature, a Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science".

Harris, David Fraser

Published by Macmillan & Co., London, 1921

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Harris, David Fraser. "A Case of Coloured Thinking with Thought-forms and Linked Sensations", in "Nature, a Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science", 3 February 1921, vol 106 no. 2675, with the article on pp 725-6 in the issue of 717-748. This paper is offered in the full weekly issue, cleanly extracted from a larger bound volume, offered with their front wrappers. Provenance: Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Laboratory, with their old rubber stamp on front wrapper. VERY GOOD condition. Color hearing, color thinking, sound symbolism.Harris uses the word "synaesthesia" as early as 1905, though doesn't use it in this paper. "PROF. DAVID FRASER FRASER-HARRIS, whose death occurred on January 3, was born on February 24, 1867, the eldest son of Mr. David Harris, of Bath. He studied medicine at the University of Glasgow, where he obtained the Neill Arnott Prize in physiological physics in 1890 and the British Medical Association Prize on the effects of alcohol in 1892. He qualified in 1893 and for the next five years was senior assistant to the professor of physiology and Muirhead demonstrator in physiology at Glasgow. He then went to St. Andrews as acting professor of physiology until 1908. He also lectured on physiology and hygiene at Manchester and Birmingham, where he obtained the degree of doctor of science and was made a member of a committee to investigate artificial respiration apparatus." Abstract of an appreciation of Harris in Nature  139, 184(1937).

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• Title: "A Case of Coloured Thinking with Thought-forms and Linked Sensations", in "Nature, a Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science".
• Publisher: Macmillan & Co., London
• Publication Date: 1921
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
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