Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz.
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| Summary: | "This work is a record of the achievements in scientific discovery and invention of one of the greatest minds of the nineteenth century. Hermann Helmholtz was one whose private life was known only to a few, and he would have instinctively recoiled from biographical revelations of a purely personal character. At the same time, I have endeavoured to give the reader some idea of the man--calm, placid, reserved, thoughtful--whose love of truth, yearning spirit of inquiry, and great intellectual powers give him a place in the front ranks of the interpreters of Nature. A life full of intellectual activity, creative, ever productive, could not contain much in the way of trivial incident. I have also tried, by following a historical method, to trace the history of any branch of inquiry up to the point when it came under the survey of Helmholtz, and then I have given an account of the contributions made by himself. Few are able to tread in the footsteps of Helmholtz, even although these are carefully pointed out by a competent guide; but this volume may at all events give an outline of the paths along which he trod"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Unwin,
1899.
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| Series: | Masters of medicine.
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Physical description: xvi, 299 p. : ill., port. ; 8vo more |
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