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Hermann von Helmholtz gilt als Gigant der Wissenschaft im 19. Jahrhundert. Seine vielfältigen Forschungen und Interessen haben auf so unterschiedlichen Gebieten wie der Meteorologie, Physiologie und Physik zu wegweisenden Erkenntnissen geführt. Helmholtz verhalf dem Energieerhaltungssatz und der Dreifarbenlehre zum Durchbruch, er hat den Augenspiegel und die Helmholtzspule erfunden sowie ein beachtliches philosophisches Werk hinterlassen. Davi...

Eine Gruppe couragierter Außenseiter legt sich in den späten 1980er Jahren mit den grauen Eminenzen der New Yorker Börse an und verursacht mehr oder weniger mutwillig den größten Börsen-Crash in der Geschichte der Wall Street am 19. Oktober 1987.

Definitive biography covering the life, world, and work of pioneering nineteenth-century German polymath Hermann von Helmholtz.

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During the nineteenth century, much of the modern scientific enterprise took shape: scientific disciplines were formed, institutions and communities were founded, and unprecedented applications to and interactions with other aspects of society and culture occurred. In this book, eleven leading historians of science assess what their field has taught us about this exciting time and identify issues that remain unexamined or require reconsiderati...

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Science at the American Frontier" is both a biography of American physicist DeWitt Bristol Brace (1859-1905) and a study of the processes by which scientific knowledge and associated instrumentation were transferred from Europe to the United States and from the east coast to the American frontier. The authors trace Brace's first-class scientific education in Boston, Baltimore, and Berlin, and they follow his career as he founded and built a de...

The first scholarly study of Imperial Germany's leading scientific institution, the Reichsanstalt.

Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) was a polymath of dazzling intellectual range and energy. Renowned for his co-discovery of the second law of thermodynamics and his invention of the ophthalmoscope, Helmholtz also made many other contributions to physiology, physical theory, philosophy of science and mathematics, and aesthetic thought. During the late nineteenth century, Helmholtz was revered as a scientist-sage--much like Albert Einstein in t...