About this title: Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-94) had a huge influence on German science during the mid-19th century, bringing it to the forefront of world attention. He was a physicist and psychologist who made seminal contributions in both fields. His "Treatise on Physiological Optics" transformed the study of vision by integrating its physical and psychological dimensions. Helmholtz expalined the mechanism of "accommodation", invented the ophtalmoscope, and revived the three-colour theory of vision first proposed in 1801 by Thomas Young. He also invented the telestereoscope, produced some ...
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Description: Like new. 1855069490. Translated by Frances A. Welby with a preface by Lord Kelvin. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, [2001]. 3 volumes. [2]+xi+[1]+375+[3]; [ii]+xiv+[2]+383+[1]; [ii]+ix+[1]+142+[4]pp. 3 photogravure portraits rather fuzzily reproduced. Green cloth with painted reddish spine labels. Very fine copies. Facsimile reprint of the original Braunschweig edition published by Vieweg 1902-1903. Still the best biography, the English translation of which is considerably abridged. 3 pounds 10.0 ... read more
Description: Like New. Thoemmes Press. Bristol, 2002. Cloth. 8vo. Book is As New. No Jacket. Reprinted from the Braunschweig editions of 1902-03. In green library binding with gilt title over brown label. read more
Binding: hb
Publisher: Thoemmes Continuum
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781855069497ISBN:1855069490
Description: NEAR FINE. Three volumes, cloth, ca. 950pp., reprint of the 1902-03 ed., new. Continuum NO Change on the list imported on 10/11/2009. read more
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