Purkinje's Vision: The Dawning of Neuroscience

ISBN-13: 9780805836424 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 174 str.

Nicholas Wade; Josef Brozek; Jiri Hoskovec

Opis

The notion, central to neuroscience, that all subjective experiences have objective correlates was first formulated by the 19th-century Czech scientist Jan Evangelista Purkinje (d. 1869) in his dissertation on vision. Never before translated into English, this dissertation comprises the main body of

Recenzje

"This translation, prepared by two leading Purkinje scholars, is thus to be welcomed...Wade and Brozek's^ translation surely will make Purjinke's dissertation more available to non-German readers."
—Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

"Purkinje's Vision...gives us a full historical context for the phenomena Purkinje studied and makes clear the significance of what he added....The book is descriptive and objective...The authors are thorough in presenting the historical background of the phenomena that came to interest him, and above all scrupulous in crediting others where they might have preceded him but not been recognized by history."
—Kosmas Czechoslovak and Central European Journal

"This book is anchored by a compelling and scholarly presentation of Purkinje's early work from the perspective of the modern discipline of psychology."
—Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

Spis treści

Contents: Preface. Introduction. Biographical and Bibliographical Notes. Historical Background for Research in Subjective Visual Phenomena. Observations and Experiments on the Physiology of the Senses. Contributions to the Knowledge of Vision in Its Subjective Aspect. Assessment.

O autorze

Nicholas J. Wade, Josef Brozek, Jir¡ Hoskovec