CSlide: T. Lenoir, 'The Eye as Mathematician', in D. Cahan (ed.), Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science (University of California Press, 1993), pp. 109-153.

T. Lenoir, 'The Eye as Mathematician', in D. Cahan (ed.), Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science (University of California Press, 1993), pp. 109-153.

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Date: 1993
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T. Lenoir, 'The Eye as Mathematician', in D. Cahan (ed.), Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science (University of California Press, 1993), pp. 109-153.

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Full title: T. Lenoir, 'The Eye as Mathematician: Clinical Practices, Instrumentation, and Helmholtz's Construction of an Empiricist Theory of Vision', in D. Cahan (ed.), Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science (University of California Press, 1993), pp. 109-153.

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Created by Timothy Lenoir
1993
Cited by T. Quick, 'Disciplining Physiological Psychology: Cinematographs as Epistemic Devices, 1897-1922', Science in Context 30 (4), pp. 423-474.
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'The living body, as the Helmholtz of the 1860’s conceived it, was a physical structure the behaviour of which could be characterized in terms of mathematical laws. As such, it constituted a medium through which impulses from the external world were conveyed to the mind. Whilst nerves were conveyors of sensory stimulations, it was the function of a physiologically-inaccessible mind to arrive at judgements regarding nature. Mind and sense organs thereby formed two elements of a perceptual system that retained a distinct separation between the immediate physiological conditions of sensation and their (physiologically-undetermined) apprehension (Lenoir 1993, 123-125; Turner 1994, 73-80).'

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T. Lenoir, 'The Eye as Mathematician', in D. Cahan (ed.), Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science (University of California Press, 1993), pp. 109-153.

T. Lenoir, 'The Eye as Mathematician', in D. Cahan (ed.), Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science (University of California Press, 1993), pp. 109-153.

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