Author: Peter Mark RogetPublisher:
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Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
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Treatises on Physiology and Phrenology: from the Seventh Edition of The Encyclopaedia Britannica. By P. M. Roget, M. D., Secretary to the Royal Society, Professor of Physiology in the Royal Institution of Great Britain, &c. &c. &c
Author: Peter Mark RogetPublisher:
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Category : Phrenology
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Treatises on Physiology and Phrenology : from the 7th Edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica", Secretary to the Royal Society, Prof. of Physiology in the Royal Institution of Great Britain, by P. M. Roget,...
Author: Peter Mark RogetTreatises on Physiology and Phrenology
Author: Peter Mark RogetPublisher:
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Category : Phrenology
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Treatises on Physiology and Phrenology
Author: Peter Mark RogetTreatises on Physiology and Phrenology
Author: Peter Mark RogetOutlines of Physiology
Author: Peter Mark RogetPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780666835369
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Excerpt from Outlines of Physiology: With an Appendix on Phrenology So great and so numerous are the improvements which Physiology, in all its departments, has received since the period of the publication of the former edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, that it was deemed necessary by the Editor to give, in the present edition, an entirely new Treatise on that subject. When I engaged, at his request, to write this Treatise, I was far from sufficiently estimating either the magnitude of the undertaking, or the space to which, in endeavouring to comprehend all its branches, the subject would extend. The limited time which was assigned me for its completion, and my distance from the place of publication, will, I trust, be admitted in extenuation of whatever errors may be discovered to be still uncorrected. In revising the article Cranioscopy, which had been published in the Supplement to the last edition of the Encyclopædia, and which the Editor purposed introducing in the present edition under the title of Phrenology, making such additions to it as I might think were requisite, I have availed myself of this permission to reply to some of the criticisms which had been made upon it by Mr. G. Combe and Dr. A. Combe: it was, accordingly, thought desirable to reprint the former essay, with no other alterations than a few verbal corrections, and the introduction of a few sentences descriptive of some modifications and additions to the system of Gall and Spurzheim contained in Mr. Combe's System of Phrenology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Outlines of Physiology
Author: Peter Mark RogetPublisher: Arkose Press
ISBN: 9781346272061
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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The Cybernetics Moment
Author: Ronald R. KlinePublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421416719
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Choice Outstanding Academic Title Cybernetics—the science of communication and control as it applies to machines and to humans—originates from efforts during World War II to build automatic antiaircraft systems. Following the war, this science extended beyond military needs to examine all systems that rely on information and feedback, from the level of the cell to that of society. In The Cybernetics Moment, Ronald R. Kline, a senior historian of technology, examines the intellectual and cultural history of cybernetics and information theory, whose language of “information,” “feedback,” and “control” transformed the idiom of the sciences, hastened the development of information technologies, and laid the conceptual foundation for what we now call the Information Age. Kline argues that, for about twenty years after 1950, the growth of cybernetics and information theory and ever-more-powerful computers produced a utopian information narrative—an enthusiasm for information science that influenced natural scientists, social scientists, engineers, humanists, policymakers, public intellectuals, and journalists, all of whom struggled to come to grips with new relationships between humans and intelligent machines. Kline traces the relationship between the invention of computers and communication systems and the rise, decline, and transformation of cybernetics by analyzing the lives and work of such notables as Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, Warren McCulloch, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Herbert Simon. Ultimately, he reveals the crucial role played by the cybernetics moment—when cybernetics and information theory were seen as universal sciences—in setting the stage for our current preoccupation with information technologies. "Nowhere in the burgeoning secondary literature on cybernetics in the last two decades is there a concise history of cybernetics, the science of communication and control that helped usher in the current information age in America. Nowhere, that is, until now . . . Readers have in The Cybernetics Moment the first authoritative history of American cybernetics."—Information & Culture "[A]n extremely interesting and stimulating history of the concepts of cybernetics . . . This is a book for everyone to read, relish, and think about."—Choice "As a whole, the book presents a comprehensive in-depth retrospective analysis of the contribution of the American scientific school to the making, formation, and development of cybernetics and information theory. An unquestionable advantage of the book is the skillful use of numerous bibliographic sources by the author that reflect the scientific, engineering, and social significance of the questions being considered, competition of ideas and developments, and also interrelations between scientists."—Cybernetics and System Analysis "Dr. Kline is perhaps uniquely situated to take on so large and complicated [a] topic as cybernetics . . . Readers unfamiliar with Wiener and his work are well advised to start with this well-written and thorough book. Those who are already familiar will still find much that is new and informative in the thorough research and reasoned interpretations."—IEEE History Center "The most comprehensive intellectual history of cybernetics in Cold War America."—Journal of American History "The book will be most valuable as historical background for the large number of disciplines that were involved in the cybernetics moment: computer science, communications engineering, information theory, and the social sciences of sociology and anthropology."—IEEE Technology and Society Magazine "Ronald Kline’s chronicle of cybernetics certainly does what an excellent history of science should do. It takes you there—to the golden age of a new, exciting field. You will almost smell that cigar."—Second-Order Cybernetics "Kline’s The Cybernetics Moment tracks the rise and fall of the cybernetics movement in more detail than any historical account to date."—Los Angeles Review of Books
Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard
Author: Louis-Cyril CelestinPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3319030205
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Genius and dilettantism often go hand in hand. Nowhere is this truer than in the life of Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard, the bilingual physician and neurologist who succeeded Claude Bernard as the Chair of Experimental Medicine at the College de France in Paris after having practiced in Paris, London and in the USA, especially in Harvard. For most men, making one discovery of global importance would have sufficed to satisfy their curiosity and self-image. Not so Brown-Séquard. His explanation of the neurological disparity following the hemi-section of the spinal cord was a unique achievement that added his name to the syndrome and made him immortal. Yet, the demons of his mind tormented him in his endless search for medical truths and drove him to explore other phenomena, seeking to explain and remedy them. This unique biography shows for the first time the conflict between his professional and personal life, and should appeal to all students of medical history and psychology.
The Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences
Author: Robert S. CohenPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401733910
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences contains a series of explorations of the different ways in which the social sciences have interacted with the natural sciences. Usually, such interactions are considered to go only `one way': from the natural to the social sciences. But there are several important essays in this volume which show how developments in the social sciences have affected the natural sciences - even the `hard' science of physics. Other essays deal with various types of interaction since the Scientific Revolution. In his general introductory chapter, Cohen sets some general themes concerning analogies and homologies and the use of metaphors, drawing specific examples from the use of concepts of physics by marginalist economists and of developments in the life sciences by organismic sociologists. The remaining chapters, which explore the different ways in which the social sciences and the natural sciences have actually interacted, are written by leaders in the field of history of science, drawn from a wide range of countries and disciplines. The book will be of great interest to all historians of science, philosophers interested in questions of methodology, economists and sociologists, and all social scientists concerned with the history of their subject and its foundations.