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Popular lectures on scientific subjects.

DOI: 10.1037/12825-000

Publisher: D Appleton & Company - American Psychological Association

May 9, 2011

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Gustav Magnus. In memoriam.

Helmholtz, H.; Atkinson, E.

Pages: 1 –25

This chapter contains an address delivered in the Leibnitz Meeting of the Academy of Sciences on July 6, 1871, commemorating Gustav Magnus, who belonged to the Academy for thirty years. His accomplishments in science and chemistry are described. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights...
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On the origin and significance of geometrical axioms.

Helmholtz, H.; Atkinson, E.

Pages: 27 –70

This lecture on the origin and significance of geometrical axioms was delivered in the Docenten Verein in Heidelberg in the year 1870. It is precisely the relation of geometry to the theory of cognition which emboldens me to speak to you on geometrical subjects in an assembly of those who for the...
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On the relation of optics to painting.

Helmholtz, H.; Atkinson, E.

Pages: 73 –138

This chapter on the relation of optics to painting was based on a series of lectures delivered in Cologne, Berlin, and Bonn by H. Helmholtz. The physiological study of the manner in which the perceptions of our senses originate, how impressions from without pass into our nerves, and how the...
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On the origin of the planetary system.

Helmholtz, H.; Atkinson, E.

Pages: 139 –197

This lecture on the origin of the planetary system was delivered in Heidelberg and in Cologne in 1871. It is my intention to bring a subject before you to-day which has been much discussed--that is, the hypothesis of Kant and Laplace as to the formation of the celestial bodies, and more...
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On thought in medicine.

Helmholtz, H.; Atkinson, E.

Pages: 199 –236

This lecture on the history and state of medicine was delivered August 2, 1877, on the anniversary of the foundation of the Institute for the Education of Army Surgeons. The recollections which crowd in upon me on this occasion have brought vividly before my mind a picture of the then condition...
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On academic freedom in German universities.

Helmholtz, H.; Atkinson, E.

Pages: 237 –265

This inaugural address--concerning academic freedom in German universities--was delivered by H. Helmholtz as the rector of the Frederick William University of Berlin, on October 15, 1877. It is argued that the power of true scientific method stands out in the natural sciences prominently--that...

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