Subject: Weber and Fechner From: Jont Allen <jba(at)RESEARCH.ATT.COM> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:03:16 +0000Dear List, Does anybody know of a good summary (historical and scientific) of Weber and Fechner. Maybe a book chapter, for example? I am interested, for example, on what medium they mainly worked with (sound, light, weight, ...), historical tidbits, a background of what was known at the time, how much mathematics they really had in their work, and stuff like that. I know about Boring's book on the History of Psychophysics, and I plan to give that a whirl (I am worried that it is long and tedious to read). -Jont B. Allen AT&T Labs-Research, Shannon Laboratory 180 Park Ave., Room E161, Florham Park NJ 07932-0971 973/360-8545voice, x7111fax, http://www.research.att.com/info/jba ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -My favorite URL: www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history WHO SAID: "You can fool ALL of the people SOME of the time, and SOME of the people ALL of the time, but you can't fool ALL of the people ALL of the time"? a) Abe Lincoln, b) Linus Torvalds, c) Bill Gates