Although Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801 87) had studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, he never practised as a doctor. In the 1820s he published satirical evaluations of the medical science of the day under the pseudonym 'Dr Mises' and supplemented his income by translating chemistry and physics texts. Increasingly he focused his studies on mathematics and physics, and the physical and physiological became recurrent themes in his work. With the publication of his Elemente der Psychophysik (1860), Fechner not only established the foundations of psychophysics as a field of research, but...
Although Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801 87) had studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, he never practised as a doctor. In the 1820s he published...
Although Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801 87) had studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, he never practised as a doctor. In the 1820s he published satirical evaluations of the medical science of the day under the pseudonym 'Dr Mises' and supplemented his income by translating chemistry and physics texts. Increasingly he focused his studies on mathematics and physics, and the physical and physiological became recurrent themes in his work. With the publication of his Elemente der Psychophysik (1860), Fechner not only established the foundations of psychophysics as a field of research, but...
Although Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801 87) had studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, he never practised as a doctor. In the 1820s he published...
