Aesthetics, Industry, and Science: Hermann Von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society

by M. Norton Wise

On January 5, 1845, the Prussian cultural minister received a request by a group of six young men to form a new Physical Society in Berlin. In fields from thermodynamics, mechanics, and electromagnetism to animal electricity, ophthalmology, and psychophysics, members of this small but growing group--which soon included Emil Du Bois-Reymond, Ernst Br cke, Werner Siemens, and Hermann von Helmholtz--established leading positions in what only thirty years...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022653135X
• ISBN13: 9780226531359
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"