Article ID: CBB931644559

Ernst Mach Invents a New Sphygmograph (2016)

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The sphygmograph as designed and tested by Jules-Étienne Marey – an apparatus destined to write pulse tracings on paper – revolutionized medical diagnostics in the early 1860s. Since the accuracy with which this device registered and objectified the pulse was controversial from the outset, the young scholar Ernst Mach (soon to become a leading theoretician and philosopher) decided to thoroughly examine Marey's sphygmograph. The investigation led to the invention of an alternative, truly Machian, sphygmograph. Mach's sphygmograph had originated in the regime of theoretical and applied physics, whereas the instrument invented by Marey had been rooted in the regime of experimental physiology. This one type of instrument thus serves as the focal object of a comparative study of two antagonistic epistemological approaches to sphygmography.

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Authors & Contributors
Dibattista, Liborio
Davide Pietrini
Lara Pauline Karpenko
Craig Cormick
Epstein, Randi Hutter
Tanaka, Setsuko
Concepts
Human physiology
Physiology
Medicine
Machines
Senses and sensation; perception
Psychology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Modern
Ancient
Places
Melbourne (Victoria, Australia)
Germany
France
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