Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science.

CAHAN, David (ed.):

ISBN 10: 0520083342 / ISBN 13: 9780520083349

Published by Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, [1993]., 1993

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First Edition, second printing. xxix, 666 pp; figs. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. Contributors include Buchwald, F. L. Holmes, Kragh, Lenoir, Olesko, et al.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science.
• Publisher: Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, [1993].
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520083342
• ISBN 13: 9780520083349
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

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and philosophy for this intellectual biography of Helmholtz, the first ever to critically assess both his published and unpublished writings.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.

About the Author

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).