A Research Machine

• Published in: Helmholtz Curves p. 55
• Main Author: Schmidgen, Henning
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• 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

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...