A Research Machine

Let us, therefore, go back to the beginning. This beginning does not correspond to a point but to a “tangle,” a “multilinear ensemble” in whichalllines—not just the lines of art but the lines of technology also—are “subject to changes in direction, bifurcating and forked.”² The winter of 1849–50 was...

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Published inHelmholtz Curves p. 55
Main Author Schmidgen, Henning
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Fordham University Press 15.09.2014
Subjects
Amphibians
Anatomy
Animals
Applied sciences
Astronomical instrumentation
Astronomy
Biological sciences
Biology
Body tissues
Electromagnetism
Engineering
Frogs
Fundamental forces
Galvanometer
Galvanometers
Hermann von Helmholtz
Machinery
Magnetism
Magnets
Measuring instruments
Mechanical engineering
Muscles
Nerves
Nervous system
Observational research
Olga von Helmholtz
Optical telescopes
Philosophy of Science
Physical sciences
Physics
Physiology
Precision
Reflecting telescopes
Research methods
Technology
Telescopes
Time Experiments
Zoology
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Summary:Let us, therefore, go back to the beginning. This beginning does not correspond to a point but to a “tangle,” a “multilinear ensemble” in whichalllines—not just the lines of art but the lines of technology also—are “subject to changes in direction, bifurcating and forked.”² The winter of 1849–50 was Helmholtz’s first winter in Königsberg. Together with his wife Olga, he had moved from Potsdam to the city of Kant at the end of August to become Ernst Brücke’s successor at the university there. After his studies in medicine under Johannes Müller in Berlin, Helmholtz had
ISBN:0823261948
9780823261949
DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823261949.003.0004