Hermann von Helmholtz

Writings[edit]

(in German unless noted otherwise)

Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik, Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1863, MPIWG; 3th ed., 1870, MPIWG; 4th ed., 1877, IA; Frankfurt/Main: Minerva, 1981.
- Théorie physiologique de la musique, fondée sur l'étude des sensations auditives, trans. Georges Guéroult, Paris: Victor Masson, 1868, IA, IA; 2nd ed., 1874. (French)
- On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music, trans. & notes Alexander J. Ellis (of 3rd German ed.), 1875, IA; 2nd ed., rev., 1885, IA; 3rd ed., London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895, IA, IA, IA; 4th ed., 1912, IA. (English)

Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays, ed. & intro. David Cahan, University Of Chicago Press, 1995, 418 pp, PDF.

Leo Koenigsberger, Hermann von Helmholtz, 3 vols., Braunschweig: Olms, 1902, IA; Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, 2003. (German)
- Hermann von Helmholtz, trans. Frances A. Welby, intro. Lord Kelvin, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906, IA.
David Cahan, Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science, University of California Press, 1994, CHM.
Gregor Schiemann, Hermann von Helmholtz’ Mechanismus im Anbruch der Moderne. Eine Studie zum Übergang von klassischer zu moderner Naturphilosophie, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1997. (German)
- Hermann von Helmholtz's Mechanism: The Loss of Certainty: A Study on the Transition from Classical to Modern Philosophy of Nature, trans. Cynthia Klohr, Springer, 2009, 284 pp, PDF. Review.
Michel Meulders, Helmholtz: Des lumières aux neurosciences, Paris: Odile Jacob, 2001. (French)
- Helmholtz: From Enlightenment to Neuroscience, trans. & ed. Laurence Garey, MIT Press, 2010, 235 pp, Log.
Benjamin Steege, Helmholtz and the Modern Listener, Cambridge University Press, 2012, PDF.
Erwin Hiebert, The Helmholtz Legacy in Physiological Acoustics, Springer, 2014, PDF.
Writings on Helmholtz in Internet Archive

Timothy Lenoir, "The Eye as Mathematician: Clinical Practice, Instrumentation, and Helmholtz's Construction of an Empiricist Theory of Vision", in Hermann von Helmholtz and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Science, ed. David Cahan, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, pp 109-153, PDF.
Timothy Lenoir, "Helmholtz and the Materialities of Communication", in Osiris 9 (1994), eds. Thomas P. Hankins and Albert van Helden, pp 184-207, PDF.
Timothy Lenoir, "Operationalizing Kant. Manifolds, Models, and Math in Helmholtz's Theories of Perception", in The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science, eds. Michael Friedman and Alfred Nordmann, 2006, pp 141-210, PDF.
Julia Kursell, "Sound Objects", in Sounds of Science – Schall im Labor, 1800–1930, ed. Kursell, Berlin: Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2008, pp 29-38, PDF.
Gregor Schiemann, "Experimental Knowledge and the Theory of Producing it: Hermann von Helmholtz", in Generating Experimental Knowledge, Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2008, pp 109-120, PDF.
Lydia Patton, "Hermann von Helmholtz", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2008f, HTML.