The Helmholtz Curves: Tracing Lost Time
Henning Schmidgen
Abstract
This book reconstructs the emergence of the phenomenon of “lost time,” i.e. the interval between stimulus and response, with respect to the German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) and the French writer Marcel Proust (1871-1922). It argues that the discovery and explanation of this phenomenon was closely tied to the functioning of laboratory technologies. In the winter of 1849/50, Helmholtz conducted pioneering measurements concerning the propagation speed of stimulations in the living nerve in Königsberg by using electromagnetic devices and graphical instruments. When presenting ... More
Keywords: History of Science, Media Studies, Hermann von Helmholtz, Marcel Proust, Time measurements, Graphical Method, Gilles Deleuze
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 | Print ISBN-13: 9780823261949 |
| Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: May 2015 | DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823261949.001.0001 |
