Popular lectures on scientific subjects (Registro nro. 118445)
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | Q |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Helmholtz, Hermann von, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1821-1894 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Popular lectures on scientific subjects |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2026-01-17 |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Gustav Magnus: In memoriam -- On the origin and significance of geometrical axioms -- On the relation of optics to painting: Form. Shade. Colour. Harmony of colour -- On the origin of the planetary system -- On thought in medicine -- On academic freedom in German universities -- Hermann von Helmholtz: an autobiographical sketch. |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Popular lectures on scientific subjects" by Hermann von Helmholtz is a collection of scientific lectures written in the late 19th century. It offers rigorous yet accessible explorations of physics, mathematics, physiology, and the culture of universities, culminating in a reflective autobiographical sketch. Expect lucid talks on topics such as non-Euclidean geometry, optics and painting, the origin of the planetary system, medical thought, and academic freedom.<br/><br/>The beginning of the volume presents transcriber and bibliographical notes, then a translator’s preface clarifying permissions and revisions (notably to the essay on academic freedom) and affirming fidelity to the originals. It opens with an In Memoriam lecture for Gustav Magnus, portraying his life, character, laboratory culture, and exemplary empirical method, highlighting contributions to gas expansion, vapor tension, blood gases, the Magnus effect, jets, and thermo-electricity, and his role in fostering physical laboratories and mentoring students. Next comes a substantial lecture on the origin and status of geometrical axioms: it contrasts Euclid’s method with analytical geometry, examines Kant’s claims, and develops non-Euclidean possibilities via surfaces (plane, spherical, pseudospherical), Riemann’s curvature, and Beltrami’s models, arguing that geometric axioms gain empirical content only when joined to mechanics; an appendix supplies the formulas. It then begins a lecture on the relation of optics to painting, where the author, speaking as a physiologist of the senses, frames painting as managed visual illusion, links artistic practice to perceptual laws, and introduces a section on form while stressing he offers analysis, not prescriptive rules. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1908 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Science |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Universities and colleges -- Germany |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Atkinson, E. |
| Fuller form of name | (Edmund), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1831-1900 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/popularlectureso00helmrich/">https://archive.org/details/popularlectureso00helmrich/</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77725">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77725</a> |
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