In the Eye's Mind : : Vision and the Helmholtz-Hering Controversy / / R. S. Turner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Turner, R. S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 227
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (358 p.) :; 8 halftones 29 line illus.

One of the most persistent controversies of modern science has dealt with human visual perception. It erupted in Germany during the 1860s as a dispute between physiologists Hermann von Helmholtz, Ewald Hering, and their schools. Well into the twentieth century these groups warred over the origins of...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Part One. INTRODUCTION
• Chapter One. Introduction
• Chapter Two. Physiological Optics from Wheatstone to Helmholtz
• Part Two. THE PROTAGONISTS
• Chapter Three. Helmholtz on Spatial Perception
• Chapter Four. Hering on Spatial Perception
• Chapter Five. The Nativist-Empiricist Controversy Begins
• Chapter Six. Helmholtz on Light and Color
• Chapter Seven. Hering on Light and Color
• Part Three. THE WIDER CONTROVERSY
• Chapter Eight. Core Sets and Partisans
• Chapter Nine. The Nativist-Empiricist Debate, 1870-1925
• Chapter Ten. Color Vision Controversies, 1875-90
• Chapter Eleven. Color Vision Controversies, 1890-1915
• Chapter Twelve. The Roots of Incommensurability
• Chapter Thirteen. Controversy and Disciplinary Structure
• Part Four. CONCLUSION
• Chapter Fourteen. In Search of Denouement: The Twentieth Century
• Appendix
• Notes
• References and Abbreviations
• Index