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Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science - California Studies in the History of Science
David Cahan
Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science - California Studies in the History of Science
David Cahan
A biography of Hermann von Helmholtz, a 19th-century scientist renowned for the co-discovery of the second law of thermodynamics and his invention of the ophthalmoscope. It relates how von Helmholtz also made contributions to the fields of physiology, philosophy of science and mathematics.
704 pages, 12 photographs, 19 figures
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | January 12, 1994 |
ISBN13 | 9780520083349 |
Publishers | University of California Press |
Pages | 704 |
Dimensions | 243 × 169 × 54 mm · 1.21 kg |
Editor | Cahan, David |