The Neuramœbimeter - continued...

This text is an excerpt from the preface to Hirn und Zeit: Die Geschichte eines Experiments, 1800-1950. Berlin: Matthes und Seitz, 2013, pp.7-15. An alternate version appeared in David Link and Nils Röller (eds.), Objects of Knowledge, of Art and of Friendship: A Small Technical Encyclopaedia (pp.94-96). Leipzig: Institut für Buchkunst, 2011.

If you are interested in accessing historical sources discussed in “Hirn und Zeit” and obtain additional information, here are some suggestions:

• Sound Proof Room in the Yale Psychological Laboratory (1895)
• Short Biography of Edward Wheeler Scripture (1864-1945)
• Scheme of the Cerebral Reflex from Ludwig Lange’s “New Experiments Concerning the Process of Simple Reactions to Sense Impressions” (1888)

• Short Biography of Hermann Helmholtz (1821-1894)
• Helmholtz on the “Methods of Measuring Very Small Portions of Time, and Their Application to Physiological Purposes” (1853)
• Laboratory Note Book by Hermann and Olga Helmholtz (1850)
• Emil du Bois Reymond “On the Time Required for the Transmission of Volition and Sensation Through the Nerves” (1866)

• Christoph Aeby’s scheme of the course of fibres in the human brain and spinal marrow (1883)
• Models of Human and Animal Brains at the Harvard Psychological Laboratory (1892)