Science and Culture (University of Chicago Press, 拢14.25/$17.95, ISBN 0 226 32659 4) reprints 15 lectures given by one of the earliest popularisers of science 鈥� and the inventor of the ophthalmoscope 鈥� Hermann von Helmholtz. Nineteenth-century German audiences were riveted by discourses on harmony in music, vision, the planets and more. The effect is still strong.
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