LEADER 04064nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910829398503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-262-31195-X 010 $a1-282-89927-9 010 $a9786612899270 010 $a0-262-28964-4 024 8 $a9786612899270 035 $a(CKB)2560000000054089 035 $a(EBL)3339188 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000437609 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11270897 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000437609 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10448063 035 $a(PQKB)10391080 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339188 035 $a(OCoLC)699488877$z(OCoLC)693710024$z(OCoLC)741350753$z(OCoLC)816618657$z(OCoLC)961501664$z(OCoLC)962569947$z(OCoLC)988410900$z(OCoLC)990741672$z(OCoLC)992026103$z(OCoLC)1004530859$z(OCoLC)1037913999$z(OCoLC)1038668523$z(OCoLC)1055337164$z(OCoLC)1062895374$z(OCoLC)1081266955 035 $a(OCoLC-P)699488877 035 $a(MaCbMITP)8673 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339188 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10433731 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL289927 035 $a(OCoLC)699488877 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000054089 100 $a20100113d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHelmholtz $efrom enlightenment to neuroscience /$fMichel Meulders ; translated and edited by Laurence Garey 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, MA $cMIT Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (255 p.) 300 $aTranslated from the French. 311 $a0-262-51819-8 311 $a0-262-01448-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aContents; Author's Acknowledgments; Translator's Introduction; Preface; Prelude; 1 Helmholtz; 2 Natural Philosophy in Young Helmholtz's Time; 3 Johannes Mu?ller, "Man of Iron"; 4 Vitalism; 5 Helmholtz and the Understanding of Nature; Intermezzo with Artists; 6 In Search of Lost Time; 7 Goethe and His Vision of Nature; 8 The Dispute about Colors; 9 The Founding Regard; 10 For or Against Pythagoras?; 11 The Musical Ear; Conclusion; Postface; Notes; Bibliography 330 1 $a"Although Hermann von Helmholtz was one of the most remarkable figures of nineteenth-century science, he is little known outside his native Germany. Helmholtz (1821-1894) made significant contributions to the study of vision and perception and was also influential in the painting, music, and literature of the time; one of his major works analyzed tone in music. This book, the first in English to describe Helmholtz's life and work in detail, describes his scientific studies, analyzes them in the context of the science and philosophy of the period---in particular the German Naturphilosophie---and gauges his influence on today's neuroscience." "Helmholtz, trained by Johannes Muller, one of the best physiologists of his time, used a resolutely materialistic and empirical scientific method in his research. This puts him in the tradition of Kant and the English empirical philosophers and directly opposed to the idealists and naturalists who interpreted nature based on metaphysical presuppositions. Helmholtz's research on color vision put him at odds with Goethe's more romantic theorizing on the subject; but at the end of his life, Helmholtz honored Goethe's contributions, acknowledging that artistic intuition could reveal truths about the human mind that are inaccessible to science." "Helmholtz's work, eclipsed at the beginning of the twentieth century by new ideas in neurophysiology, has recently been rediscovered. We can now recognize in Helmholtz's methods---which were based on his belief in the interconnectedness of physiology and psychology---the origins of neuroscience."--Jacket. 606 $aScientists$zGermany$vBiography 615 0$aScientists 676 $a509.2 676 $aB 700 $aMeulders$b Michel$0592227 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910829398503321 996 $aHelmholtz$91001209 997 $aUNINA