Ernst Heinrich Weber

Attributed to the psychophysicist Ernst Heinrich Weber by von Uexküll 1957/1934.

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

Attributed to the psychophysicist Ernst Heinrich Weber by von Uexküll 1957/1934.

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

In the early part of the 19th century, Ernst Heinrich Weber argued that the so-called “vital forces” are in fact physical forces, and he argued that the most pressing problem for 19th century physiology was to explain the so-called vital forces in physical terms, and thus to banish vitalism.

Hermann von Helmholtz Patton, Lydia 2008

This is called the Weber-Fechner Law after the two Germans, Ernst Heinrich Weber and Gustav Theodor Fechner, who worked it out.

The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

To most people a north pole expedition would be an easy task compared with those ineffably tedious measurements of simple mental processes of which Ernst Heinrich Weber set the fashion some forty years ago, and the necessity of extending which in every possible direction becomes more and more apparent to students of the mind.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 Various