Hermann von Helmholtz

Writings

(in German unless noted)

Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik, Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1863, 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. (in French)
- On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music, trans. & notes Alexander J. Ellis, 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. (in English)

Gregor Schiemann, Hermann von Helmholtz’ Mechanismus im Anbruch der Moderne. Eine Studie zum Übergang von klassischer zu moderner Naturphilosophie, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1997. (in 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. Review.
Michel Meulders, Helmholtz: Des lumières aux neurosciences, Paris: Odile Jacob, 2001.
- Helmholtz: From Enlightenment to Neuroscience, trans. & ed. Laurence Garey, MIT Press, 2010, 235 pp.

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.
Timothy Lenoir, "Helmholtz and the Materialities of Communication", in Osiris 9: "Instruments and the Production of Scientific Knowledge" (1994), eds. Thomas P. Hankins and Albert van Helden, pp 184-207.
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.
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.
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.
Lydia Patton, "Hermann von Helmholtz", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2008f.