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Investigating Vision: Scientific Instruments as Historiographic Tools for the Understanding of the Development and Establishment of Colour, Perception and Performance Research at Edinburgh University, 1850–1950 (2018)

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Science education and teaching Psychology Color Scientific apparatus and instruments Vision 19th century 20th century, early Leipzig (Germany) Edinburgh (Scotland) Wundt, Wilhelm Max University of Edinburgh

This article draws a historic trajectory for the study of colour perception at Edinburgh University through the examination of three key pieces of scientific apparatus and their uses. It traces the development of colour, perception and skills research at Edinburgh University from the 1850s to 1950s. Starting point of the narrative is the advent of Wilhelm Wundt’s laboratory method from Leipzig, its inherent limitations and Edinburgh psychologists’ response to it. Through the analysis of some of the key instruments and their use for colour perception and skills research and teaching the article aims to understand the establishment of the department of psychology at Edinburgh University, and more broadly, scientific instruments as tools for understanding the formation and development of research and teaching schools.

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Authors & Contributors
Henry, John
Robinson, David K.
Araujo, Saulo de Freitas
Emerson, Roger L.
Ferrari, Michel
Fuchs, Thomas
Journals
History of Psychology
Archives of Natural History
Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
British Journal for the History of Science
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Publishers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Edinburgh University Press
Kluwer Academic
Concepts
Psychology
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Vision
Experimental psychology
Visual perception
Color
People
Wundt, Wilhelm Max
Bandura, Albert
Bennett, John Hughes
Black, Joseph
Born, Max
Brewster, David
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
21st century
Enlightenment
Places
Edinburgh (Scotland)
Scotland
Canada
Germany
United States
Argentina
Institutions
University of Edinburgh
Universidad de Buenos Aires
University of Glasgow
University of St. Andrews
University of Toronto
Edinburgh Physiological Society
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