SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Nineteenth-century scientific instruments

The first thing to be said about this book is that it is an excellent survey of nineteenth-century scientific instruments. Its excellence lies in its value as a guide to the identification of objects. The volume is extremely well produced; the illustrations, which are mainly photographs of instruments, are first class; and Dr. Turner's detailed text irreproachably sound. The book is a general a...

Thinking the Unconscious: Nineteenth-Century German Thought

The Influence of Scientific Research on Nineteenth-century Musical Thought: the Work of Richard Wallaschek

The scientific study of music blossomed in the second half of the nineteenth century, particularly in Germany and Austria. Researchers such as Hermann von Helmholtz and Carl Stumpf investigated the physiological and psychological bases of music but did not focus on higher-level musical topics. It was not until the early twentieth century that scientific methods were applied to the study of larg...

The problematic science: psychology in nineteenth-century thought

development of the medical schools. From the 1960s, Dowling detects a shift in which hospitals are becoming leaders in health care for their communities. Dowling has made careful use of a variety of secondary and printed primary sources. However, he has not used hospital papers and seems to have used only those primary materials to which secondary works have referred him. It is a pity, too, tha...

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So wrote Friedrich Nietzsche in 1873, as part of his ironic response to the success of the Philosophy of the Unconscious (Philosophie des Unbewussten, 1869), written by the Berlin philosopher Eduard von Hartmann. If the influence of a concept can be gauged by the way in which it is received by the public at large, if not in academic circles, then Hartmann’s volume, which ran to some eleven edit...