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Born February 18, 1838 • Austria
Died February 19, 1916 (aged 78) • Germany
Subjects Of Study Mach number • Mach’s bands • Mach’s principle • kinesthesis • wave • measurement • knowledge • sensation
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Norman Robert Campbell
British physicist and philosopher
Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Swiss-German scientist and philosopher
John Locke
John Locke
English philosopher
Condillac, engraving by Pierre-Nicolas Ransonnette
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
French philosopher
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Kip Thorne
American physicist
Espagnat, Bernard d'
Bernard d’Espagnat
French physicist and philosopher
Anders Jonas Ångström
Swedish physicist
Jean Buridan
French philosopher and scientist
Mme du Châtelet, detail of a portrait by an unknown French artist; in a private collection
Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet
French scientist and philosopher
Henry Longueville Mansel
British philosopher and theologian
Gustav Fechner
German philosopher and physicist
Albert Of Saxony
German philosopher
Henrik Steffens
German philosopher and physicist
John Sergeant
English Roman Catholic priest

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