

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
E-ISSN: 1474-0664|28|3|357-396
ISSN: 0269-8897
Source: Science in Context, Vol.28, Iss.3, 2015-08, pp. : 357-396
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Abstract
In the winter of 1849–1850 in Königsberg, German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894) conducted pioneering measurements concerning the propagation speed of stimulations in the living nerve. While recent historians of science have paid considerable attention to Helmholtz's uses of the graphic method, in particular his construction of an instrument called “myographion,” this paper draws attention to the
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