The Scientific Legacy of Charles Wheatstone

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-82
Author(s):  
Thomas B. Greenslade
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Legacy ◽  
Charles Wheatstone

Exneriana – II – The Scientific Legacy of John E. Exner, Jr. 1Part of this paper was presented at the XIXth International Congress of Rorschach and Projective Methods, July 22–26, 2008, Louvain, Belgium.

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Andronikof
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Studies ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Response Process ◽  
Scientific Legacy ◽  
Projective Test ◽  
Projective Methods ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
Complex Mechanisms

Based on an analysis of John Exner’s peer-reviewed published work from 1959 to 2007, plus a brief comment for an editorial in Rorschachiana, the author draws a comprehensive picture of the scientific work of this outstanding personality. The article is divided into three sections: (1) the experimental studies on the Rorschach, (2) the clinical studies using the Rorschach, and (3) Exner’s “testament,” which we draw from the last paper he saw published before his death (Exner, 2001/2002). The experimental studies were aimed at better understanding the nature of the test, in particular the respective roles of perception and projection in the response process. These fundamental studies led to a deeper understanding of the complex mechanisms involved in the Rorschach responses and introduced some hypotheses about the intentions of the author of the test. The latter were subsequently confirmed by the preparatory sketches and documents of Hermann Rorschach, which today can be seen at the H. Rorschach Archives and Museum in Bern (Switzerland). Exner’s research has evidenced the notion that the Rorschach is a perceptive-cognitive-projective test.

I. On a new form of dynamo-magneto-electric machine

1875 ◽  
Vol 23 (156-163) ◽  
pp. 496-498
Keyword(s):  
Great Part ◽  
Electric Machine ◽  
Platinum Wire ◽  
External Work ◽  
New Form ◽  
Charles Wheatstone

In the first machines constructed by Siemens and Wheatstone in 1867 (see Royal Society’s Transactions) the power of augmenting the magnetism by successive currents, developed from the original residua magnetism contained in the iron, was fully demonstrated, and it was shown that the power of the machine could thereby be developed to great extent; but the only means for obtaining external work was by the insertion in the circuit of a magnet or coil so that the secondary discharge could be utilized. Sir Charles Wheatstone also showed that a great part of the current could be shunted through a platinum wire, care being taken that the resistance of the platinum wire was sufficient to compel a large part of the current to pass round the electromagnet.

scholarly journals India's scientific legacy

Nature ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 457 (7226) ◽  
pp. 150-151
Author(s):  
Jayant V. Narlikar
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Legacy

scholarly journals The scientific legacy of J.P. Elliott

2011 ◽  
Vol 850 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-166
Author(s):  
P. Van Isacker
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Legacy
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