1834 WEBER, Ernst Heinrich (1795 – 1878)
De pulsu, resorptione, auditu et tactu. Annotationes anatomicae et physiologicae.
Includes Weber’s law on the relationship between stimulus and sensation. English translation of De tactu, New York Academic Press, 1978. Weber's hearing test is on p.41.
GMN 1457 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2367
1859 FECHNER, Gustav Theodor (1801 – 1887)
Ueber ein wichtiges psychophysisches Grundgesetz und dessen Beziehung zur Schätzung der Sterngrössen.
Fechner–Weber law on stimulus and sensation. See also Nos. 1457 & 4972.
GMN 1464 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2401
1860 FECHNER, Gustav Theodor (1801 – 1887)
Elemente der Psychophysik. 2 vols.
The first treatise on the subject. Fechner applied the laws of mathematical physics to the physiology of sensation. He discussed the functional relations of the dependence between mind and body and investigated the cu…
GMN 4972 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6387
1868 DONDERS, Frans Cornelis (1818 – 1889)
Die Schnelligkeit psychischer Prozesse.
Donders was the first to measure the reaction-time of a psychical process.
GMN 4974 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6394
1872 –1875 HERING, Karl Ewald Konstantin (1834 – 1918)
Zur Lehre vom Lichtsinne. 6 parts.
Hering’s theory of color sense. First edition in book form (Vienna, 1878). Hering expanded this work in Grundzüge der Lehre vom Lichtsinn (1905-11; 1920) English translation of that expanded work by Leo M. Hurvich and…
GMN 1515 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2615
1886 MACH, Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel (1838 – 1916)
Beiträge zur Analyse der Empfindungen.
Translated into English by C. M .Williams and Sydney Waterlow as The Analysis of Sensations (1897). Revised and supplemented from the Fifth German edition by Sydney Waterlow (1914). Digital facsimile of the 1886 editi…
GMN 10450 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12643
1892 FERRY, Ervin Sidney (1868 – 1956)
Persistence of vision.
Ferry modified Weber’s law on the relationship between stimulus and sensation. Following the work of Porter, Proc. roy. Soc. (Lond.), 1898, 63, 347; 1902, 70, 313, the term “Ferry–Porter Law” came into being.
GMN 1473 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2440
1938 HARTLINE, Haldon Keffer (1903 – 1983)
The responses of single optic nerve fibers of the vertebrate eye to illumination of the retina.
Hartline continued and extended the work initiated by Adrian and Matthews on electrical discharges from the optic nerve. See also his later papers In the same journal, 1940, 130, 690-711. Reprinted with historical int…
GMN 1532 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2858
1941 RIGGS, Lorrin Andrews (1912 – 2008)
Continuous and reproducible records of the electrical activity of the human retina.
Electroretinography
GMN 1533 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2859
