Princeton: Princeton University Press, Date: 1994. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 9" X 6". 338pp. Wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Price sticker to rear cover, and torn sticker remnants to front cover. Slight curl to covers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: One of the most persistent controversies of modern science has dealt with human visual perception. It erupted in Germany during the 1860s as a dispute between physiologists Hermann von Helmholtz, Ewald Hering, and their schools. Well into the twentieth century these groups warred over the origins of our capacity to perceive space, over the retinal mechanisms that mediate color sensations, and over the role of mind, experience, and inference in vision. Here R. Steven Turner explores the impassioned exchanges of those rival schools, both to illuminate the clash of theory and to explore the larger role of controversy in the development of science. Controversy, he suggests, is constitutive of scientific change, and he uses the Helmholtz-Hering dispute to illustrate how polemics and tacit negotiation shape evolving theoretical stances. Turner focuses on the arguments and issues of the dispute, issues that ranged from the interpretation of color blindness and optical illusions to the therapeutic practices of clinical ophthalmology. As well, he focuses on the personalities, institutions, disciplinary structures, and methodological comm ...

ISBN10: 0691033978, ISBN13: 9780691033976, [publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton] Softcover Paperback. 9" X 6". 338pp. Wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Price sticker to rear cover, and torn sticker remnants to front cover. Slight curl to covers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: One of the most persistent controversies of modern science has dealt with human visual perception. It erupted in Germany during the 1860s as a dispute between physiologists Hermann von Helmholtz, Ewald Hering, and their schools. Well into the twentieth century these groups warred over the origins of our capacity to perceive space, over the retinal mechanisms that mediate color sensations, and over the role of mind, experience, and inference in vision. Here R. Steven Turner explores the impassioned exchanges of those rival schools, both to illuminate the clash of theory and to explore the larger role of controversy in the development of science. Controversy, he suggests, is constitutive of scientific change, and he uses the Helmholtz-Hering dispute to illustrate how polemics and tacit negotiation shape evolving theoretical stances. Turner focuses on the arguments and issues of the dispute, issues that ranged from the interpretation of color blindness and optical illusions to the therapeutic practices of clinical ophthalmology. As well, he focuses on the personalities, institutions ...
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ISBN10: 0691033978, ISBN13: 9780691033976, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover 338 S. Gebrauchs- und Lagerspuren. Aus der Auflösung einer renommierten Bibliothek. Kann Stempel beinhalten. Fehlt: Schutzumschlag. 41969389/203 Gebundene Ausgabe, Maße: 16.51 cm x 3.18 cm x 24.77 cm
[Trebbin, Germany] [Publication Year: 1994]

Princeton: Princeton University Press, Date: 1994. 1st ed. . Black Cloth. Fine/Fine. 16 Cms x 24 Cms. f/piece+xiv+338, 29 text figs; near pristine copy with review request slipped in, only, very minor, flaws: a few creases to top of front jacket wraparound and very small crease top jacket front corner of spine. Will add protective sleeve to jacket when ordered. An excellent copy of this sphisticated in-depth monograph on the famous controversy over the physiological process of colour perception, which itself raised interesting theoretical implications. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range. 1994. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691033978 9780691033976 [GB]

ISBN10: 0691033978, ISBN13: 9780691033976, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover 338 S. Gebrauchs- und Lagerspuren. Aus der Auflösung einer renommierten Bibliothek. Kann Stempel beinhalten. Fehlt: Schutzumschlag. 41969389/203 Gebundene Ausgabe, Maße: 16.51 cm x 3.18 cm x 24.77 cm
[Trebbin, Germany] [Publication Year: 1994]

ISBN10: 0691033978, ISBN13: 9780691033976, [publisher: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.] Hardcover First Edition First Edition. Frontispiece xiv, 338 pp; 8 halftones; 29 line illus.; tables. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. 'One of the most persistent controversies of modern science has dealt with human visual perception. It erupted in Germany during the 1860s as a dispute between physiologists Hermann von Helmholtz, Ewald Hering, and their schools. Well into the twentieth century these groups warred over the origins of our capacity to perceive space, over the retinal mechanisms that mediate color sensations, and over the role of mind, experience, and inference in vision. Here R. Steven Turner explores the impassioned exchanges of those rival schools, both to illuminate the clash of theory and to explore the larger role of controversy in the development of science. Controversy, he suggests, is constitutive of scientific change, and he uses the Helmholtz-Hering dispute to illustrate how polemics and tacit negotiation shape evolving theoretical stances. Turner focuses on the arguments and issues of the dispute, issues that ranged from the interpretation of color blindness and optical illusions to the therapeutic practices of clinical ophthalmology. As well, he focuses on the personalities, institutions, disciplinary structures, and methodological commitments that shaped the dispute, including the schools' rhetorical strategies. ...

Princeton:: Princeton University Press, (Date: 1994)., 1994. 8vo. xiv, 338 pp. Port. Frontis., illus., index. Silver-stamped cloth, dust-jacket; slight corner bump (rear) else fine. ISBN: 0691033978 Turner argues that controversy is constitutive of scientific changes. He uses the Helmholtz-Hering controversy to show how polemics and tacit negotiation shape evolving theoretical stances. 1994. Princeton University Press, (1994). ISBN 0691033978 CH

ISBN10: 0691033978, ISBN13: 9780691033976, [publisher: Princeton University Press, (1994)., Princeton:] Hardcover 8vo. xiv, 338 pp. Port. Frontis., illus., index. Silver-stamped cloth, dust-jacket; slight corner bump (rear) else fine. ISBN: 0691033978 Turner argues that controversy is constitutive of scientific changes. He uses the Helmholtz-Hering controversy to show how polemics and tacit negotiation shape evolving theoretical stances.
[Montreux, VAUD, Switzerland] [Publication Year: 1994]
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