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Auteur(s) : Wise, M. Norton
Titre(s) : Aesthetics, industry, and science [Texte imprimé] : Hermann von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society / M. Norton Wise
Publication : Chicago : University of Chicago press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXI-405 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 363-392. Index
"On January 5, 1845, the Prussian Cultural Minister received a request by a group
of six young men to form a new Physical Society in Berlin. In fields from thermodynamics,
mechanics, and electromagnetism to animal electricity, ophthalmology, and psychophysics,
members of this small but growing group--which soon included Emil Du Bois-Reymond,
Ernst Brucke, Werner Siemens, and Hermann von Helmholtz--established leading positions
in what only thirty years later had become a new landscape of natural science. How
was this possible? How could a bunch of twenty-somethings succeed in seizing the future?
In Aesthetics, Industry, and Science, M. Norton Wise answers these questions not simply
from a technical perspective of theories and practices but with a broader cultural
view of what was happening in Berlin at the time. He emphasizes in particular how
rapid industrial development, military modernization, and the neoclassical aesthetics
of contemporary art informed the ways in which these young men thought. Wise argues
that aesthetic sensibility and material aspiration in this period were intimately
linked, and he uses these two themes for a final reappraisal of Helmholtz's early
work. Anyone interested in modern German cultural history, or the history of nineteenth-century
German science, will be drawn to this landmark book."
Sujet(s) : Helmholtz, Hermann von (1821-1894)
Sciences -- Prusse -- 19e siècle
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
Indice(s) Dewey :
509.2 (23e éd.) = Sciences naturelles et mathématiques - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226531359. - ISBN 022653135X (rel.). - ISBN 9780226531496. - ISBN 022653149X
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