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Helmholtz
Baron Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von . 1821--94, German physiologist, physicist, and mathematician: helped to found the theory of the conservation of energy; invented the ophthalmoscope (1850); and investigated the mechanics of sight and sound
helmholtz [′helm‚hōlts]
(electricity)
A unit of dipole moment per unit area, equal to 1 Debye unit per square angstrom, or approximately 3.335 × 10-10coulomb per meter.
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He based his experiment on the square illusion created by 19th century scientist Hermann von Helmholtz who drew two squares of identical size and put vertical stripes in one and horizontal stripes in the other.
Now it's vertical stripes that make you look fatter by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
s invention, a German physician-scientist named Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) developed his own version of the ophthalmoscope in 1850.
Opthalmoscopes Seeing the Light! by Gary Gordon / Business community
He points in particular to the "empathy theorists" Vischer and Wolfflin and to the work of the physicist Hermann von Helmholtz, contending that Crary unfairly dismisses Helmholtz as a "normalizing" figure who "conceals" the reality of the ongoing autonomization project (which is also what Crary would say about Menzel, Fried predicts).
Embody Language: Christopher S. Wood on Michael Fried's Menzel. ... by Wood, Christopher S. / Artforum International
 
 
 
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