This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... unaffected popular style. You make the conclusions of science comprehensible even to the laity, showing where the details are leading to, and what is the way and aim. It almost seems to me that this mathematical-empirical method of investigation, when once it develops into a definite art, and no ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... unaffected popular style. You make the conclusions of science comprehensible even to the laity, showing where the details are leading to, and what is the way and aim. It almost seems to me that this mathematical-empirical method of investigation, when once it develops into a definite art, and no longer depends upon individual genius, may inaugurate a new, perhaps slow, but certain way to philosophy, which will at any rate define exactly the objective substratum of all knowledge, rendering its nature indubitably clear, and thus establishing the ego-doctrine of Fichte as the only possible mode of philosophical thought.' In a letter written in September, to announce the birth of his son Richard, Helmholtz gratified his father by admitting that it had (as the latter surmised) been his intention in the lecture to give an empirical statement of Fichte's fundamental views of sense-perception, and expresses pleasure that his father is content with the form of the dissertation, and approves of his philosophical opinions. His general philosophical and epistemological views were, however, quite unlike Fichte's, since they were based upon exact investigations, the results of which he set forth in the inaugural thesis 'On the Theory of Compound Colours', and in the paper published in Poggendorjf s Anna/en, 'On Sir David Brewster's New Analysis of Solar Light, ' which laid the foundation of the whole of the modern theory of colour. After Newton's discovery of the composition of white light, he assumed the existence of seven principal colours in the spectrum, apparently taking this number from the analogy which he sought to establish between these colours and the intervals of the musical scale. But while two tones of different vibration-frequency and..
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