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SUBJECT AREA: Automotive engineering, Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering

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Ernest-Sylvain Bollée was the founder of an extensive dynasty of bellfounders based in Le Mans and in Orléans. He and his three sons, Amédée (1844–1917), Ernest-Sylvain fils (1846–1917) and Auguste (1847-?), were involved in work and patents on steam-and petrol-driven cars, on wind engines and on hydraulic rams. The presence of the Bollées' car industry in Le Mans was a factor in the establishment of the car races that are held there.

In 1868 Ernest-Sylvain Bollée père took out a patent for a wind engine, which at that time was well established in America and in England. In both these countries, variable-shuttered as well as fixed-blade wind engines were in production and patented, but the Ernest-Sylvain Bollée patent was for a type of wind engine that had not been seen before and is more akin to the water-driven turbine of the Jonval type, with its basic principle being parallel to the "rotor" and "stator". The wind drives through a fixed ring of blades on to a rotating ring that has a slightly greater number of blades. The blades of the fixed ring are curved in the opposite direction to those on the rotating blades and thus the air is directed onto the latter, causing it to rotate at a considerable speed: this is the "rotor". For greater efficiency a cuff of sheet iron can be attached to the "stator", giving a tunnel effect and driving more air at the "rotor". The head of this wind engine is turned to the wind by means of a wind-driven vane mounted in front of the blades. The wind vane adjusts the wind angle to enable the wind engine to run at a constant speed.

The fact that this wind engine was invented by the owner of a brass foundry, with all the gear trains between the wind vane and the head of the tower being of the highest-quality brass and, therefore, small in scale, lay behind its success. Also, it was of prefabricated construction, so that fixed lengths of cast-iron pillar were delivered, complete with twelve treads of cast-iron staircase fixed to the outside and wrought-iron stays. The drive from the wind engine was taken down the inside of the pillar to pumps at ground level.

Whilst the wind engines were being built for wealthy owners or communes, the work of the foundry continued. The three sons joined the family firm as partners and produced several steam-driven vehicles. These vehicles were the work of Amédée père and were l'Obéissante (1873); the Autobus (1880–3), of which some were built in Berlin under licence; the tram Bollée-Dalifol (1876); and the private car La Mancelle (1878). Another important line, in parallel with the pumping mechanism required for the wind engines, was the development of hydraulic rams, following the Montgolfier patent. In accordance with French practice, the firm was split three ways when Ernest-Sylvain Bollée père died. Amédée père inherited the car side of the business, but it is due to Amédée fils (1867– 1926) that the principal developments in car manufacture came into being. He developed the petrol-driven car after the impetus given by his grandfather, his father and his uncle Ernest-Sylvain fils. In 1887 he designed a four-stroke single-cylinder engine, although he also used engines designed by others such as Peugeot. He produced two luxurious saloon cars before putting Torpilleur on the road in 1898; this car competed in the Tour de France in 1899. Whilst designing other cars, Amédée's son Léon (1870–1913) developed the Voiturette, in 1896, and then began general manufacture of small cars on factory lines. The firm ceased work after a merger with the English firm of Morris in 1926. Auguste inherited the Eolienne or wind-engine side of the business; however, attracted to the artistic life, he sold out to Ernest Lebert in 1898 and settled in the Paris of the Impressionists. Lebert developed the wind-engine business and retained the basic "stator-rotor" form with a conventional lattice tower. He remained in Le Mans, carrying on the business of the manufacture of wind engines, pumps and hydraulic machinery, describing himself as a "Civil Engineer".

The hydraulic-ram business fell to Ernest-Sylvain fils and continued to thrive from a solid base of design and production. The foundry in Le Mans is still there but, more importantly, the bell foundry of Dominique Bollée in Saint-Jean-de-Braye in Orléans is still at work casting bells in the old way.

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SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology

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After education at a private school in Marlborough, Hancock spent some time in "mechanical pursuits". He went to London to better himself and c.1819 his interest was aroused in the uses of rubber, which until then had been limited. His first patent, dated 29 April 1820, was for the application of rubber in clothing where some elasticity was useful, such as braces or slip-on boots. He noticed that freshly cut pieces of rubber could be made to adhere by pressure to form larger pieces. To cut up his imported and waste rubber into small pieces, Hancock developed his "masticator". This device consisted of a spiked roller revolving in a hollow cylinder. However, when rubber was fed in to the machine, the product was not the expected shredded rubber, but a homogeneous cylindrical mass of solid rubber, formed by the heat generated by the process and pressure against the outer cylinder. This rubber could then be compacted into blocks or rolled into sheets at his factory in Goswell Road, London; the blocks and sheets could be used to make a variety of useful articles. Meanwhile Hancock entered into partnership with Charles Macintosh in Manchester to manufacture rubberized, waterproof fabrics. Despite these developments, rubber remained an unsatisfactory material, becoming sticky when warmed and losing its elasticity when cold. In 1842 Hancock encountered specimens of vulcanized rubber prepared by Charles Goodyear in America. Hancock worked out for himself that it was made by heating rubber and sulphur, and obtained a patent for the manufacture of the material on 21 November 1843. This patent also included details of a new form of rubber, hardened by heating to a higher temperature, that was later called vulcanite, or ebonite. In 1846 he began making solid rubber tyres for road vehicles. Overall Hancock took out sixteen patents, covering all aspects of the rubber industry; they were a leading factor in the development of the industry from 1820 until their expiry in 1858.

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SUBJECT AREA: Medical technology

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He graduated in medicine from Vienna in 1891 and spent the next five years at various European universities. In 1923 he began to work at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York. In 1900, while investigating the disintegration of red blood cells, he discovered the reaction of one person's cells to the serum of another. By 1909 he had developed the classification of four main blood groups, which has proved to be of fundamental importance, particularly in relation to the development of blood-transfusion techniques and blood banks, despite the later discovery of many subgroups as well as of the rhesus factor (1940) and its relation to miscarriages and neonatal disease.

He was involved in research in many other fields, including syphilis, thyroid disease, scarlet fever and typhus, but his main studies were centred on the chemistry of immunology and its significance in allergy.

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SUBJECT AREA: Electricity, Metallurgy, Public utilities

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After studying at the West of Scotland Technical College in Glasgow, in January 1895 Morrison was appointed Engineer to the newly formed British Aluminium Company Limited (BAC); it was with this organization that he spent his entire career. The company secured the patent rights to the Héroult and Bayer processes. It constructed a 200 tonne per year electrolytic plant at Foyers on the shore of Loch Ness, together with an adjacent 5000 kW hydroelectric scheme, and it built an alumina factory at Larne Harbour in north-eastern Ireland. Morrison was soon Manager at Foyers, and he became the company's Joint Technical Adviser. In 1910 he was made General Manager, and later he was appointed Managing Director. Morrison successfully brought about improvements in all parts of the production process; between 1915 and 1930 he increased the size of individual electrolytic cells by a factor of five, from 8,000 to 40,000 amperes. Soon after 1901, BAC built a second works for electrolytic reduction, at Kinlochleven in Argyllshire, where the primary design originated from Morrison. In the 1920s a third plant was erected at Fort William, in the lee of Ben Nevis, with hydroelectric generators providing some 75 MW. Alumina factories were constructed at Burntisland on the Firth of Forth and, in the 1930s, at Newport in Monmouthshire. Rolling mills were developed at Milton in Staffordshire, Warrington, and Falkirk in Stirlingshire, this last coming into use in the 1940s, by which time the company had a primary-metal output of more than 30,000 tonnes a year. Morrison was closely involved in all of these developments. He retired in 1946 as Deputy Chairman of BAC.

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See also: Hall, Charles Martin

SUBJECT AREA: Mining and extraction technology

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The son of a mining officer, Oeynhausen started his career in the Prussian administration of the mining industry in 1816, immediately after he had finished his studies in natural sciences and mathematics at the University of Göttingen. From 1847 until his retirement he was a most effective head of state mines inspectorates, first in Silesia (Breslau; now Wroclaw, Poland), later in Westphalia (Dortmund). During his working life he served in all the important mining districts of Prussia, and travelled to mining areas in other parts of Germany, Belgium, France and Britain. In the 1820s, after visiting Glenck's well-known saltworks near Wimpfen, he was commissioned to search for salt deposits in Prussian territory, where he discovered the thermal springs south of Minden which later became the renowned spa carrying his name.

With deeper drills, the increased weight of the rods made it difficult to disengage the drill on each stroke and made the apparatus self-destructive on impact of the drill. Oeynhausen, from 1834, used fish joints, flexible connections between the drill and the rods. Not only did they prevent destructive impact, but they also gave a jerk on the return stroke that facilitated disengagements. He never claimed to have invented the fish joints: in fact, they appeared almost simultaneously in Europe and in America at that time, and had been used since at least the seventeenth century in China, although they were unknown in the Western hemisphere.

Using fish joints meant the start of a new era in deep-drilling, allowing much deeper wells to be sunk than before. Five weeks after Oeynhausen, K.G. Kind operated with a different kind of fish joint, and in 1845 another Prussian mining officer, Karl Leopold Fabian (1782–1855), Director of the salt inspectorate at Schönebeck, Elbe, improved the fish joints by developing a special device between the rod and the drill to enable the chisel, strengthened by a sinker bar, to fall onto the bottom of the hole without hindrance with a higher effect. The free-fall system became another factor in the outstanding results of deep-drilling in Prussia in the nineteenth century.

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SUBJECT AREA: Electricity, Public utilities

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Before devoting the whole of his attention to the electric light, Staite was a partner in a business of iron merchants and patented a method of obtaining extracts and essences. From 1834 he attempted to produce a continuous light by electricity. The first public exhibition of Staite's arc lamp incorporating a fixed-rate clockwork mechanism was given in 1847 to the Sunderland Literary and Philosophical Society. He also demonstrated an incandescent lamp with an iridioplatinum filament. Sir Joseph Wilson Swan recorded that it was attending lectures by Staite in Sunderland, Newcastle and Carlisle that started him on the quest which many years later was to lead to his incandescent lamp.

In association with William Petrie (1821–1904), Staite made an important advance in the development of arc lamps by introducing automatic regulation of the carbon rods by way of an electromagnet. This was the first of many self-regulating arc lamps that were invented during the nineteenth century employing this principle. A contributory factor in the success of Staite's lamp was the semi enclosure of the arc in a transparent vessel that reduced the consumption of carbons, a feature not used again until the 1890s. His patents included processes for preparing carbons and the construction of primary cells for arc lighting. An improved lamp used by Staite in a theatrical production at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, in April 1849 may be considered the first commercial success of the electric light in England. In spite of the limitations imposed by the use of primary cells as the only available source of power, serious interest in this system of electric lighting was shown by railway companies and dock authorities. However, after he had developed a satisfactory arc lamp, an end to these early experiments was brought about by Staite's death.

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active market оживленный рынок advancing market растущий рынок after hours market сделки, заключенные после официального закрытия биржи after market внебиржевой рынок ценных бумаг approach a market выход на рынок arbitrage market арбитражный рынок banking market банковский рынок barely steady market устойчивый рынок с тенденцией к понижению to be on the long side of the market придерживать товар в ожидании повышения цен market сбыт; to come into the market поступить в продажу; to put on the market пустить в продажу; to be on the market продаваться bearish market рынок, на котором наблюдается тенденция к снижению курсов bearish market бирж. рынок с понижением фондовой конъюнктуры black market черный рынок black market черный рынок bond market рынок облигаций с фиксированной ставкой to bring one's eggs (или hogs) to a bad (или the wrong) market просчитаться; потерпеть неудачу market торговля; brisk market бойкая торговля; hours of market часы торговли bulk market рынок транспортных услуг для массовых грузов bull market бирж. рынок спекулянтов, играющих на повышение bull the market exc. играть на повышение bullish market бирж. рынок спекулянтов, играющих на повышение buyer's market конъюнктура рынка, выгодная для покупателя calm the market устанавливать спокойствие на рынке calm the market устранять колебания рыночной конъюнктуры capital market рынок долгосрочного ссудного капитала capital market рынок капиталов captive market рынок, нейтрализующий конкуренцию captive market рынок, защищенный от конкуренции cash market бирж. наличный рынок cash market бирж. рынок реальных финансовых инструментов certificate-of-deposit market рынок депозитных сертификатов market сбыт; to come into the market поступить в продажу; to put on the market пустить в продажу; to be on the market продаваться commodity market рынок товаров commodity market товарная биржа commodity market товарный рынок market: confident market устойчивый рынок consolidate a market укреплять рынок consumer market потребительский рынок control the market контролировать рынок controlled market регулируемый рынок credit market рынок кредита cross-border market международный рынок cultivate a market развивать рынок currency market валютный рынок dampened market вялый рынок dampened market неактивный рынок debenture market рынок долговых обязательств declining market сужающийся рынок depressed market вялый рынок depressed market неактивный рынок develop a market осваивать рынок develop a market развивать рынок development aid market рынок помощи в целях развития difficult market трудный рынок domestic capital market внутренний рынок долгосрочного ссудного капитала domestic market внутренний рынок domestic market отечественный рынок dual exchange market валютный рынок с двойным режимом dull market вялый рынок dull market неактивный рынок either way market альтернативный рынок energy market рынок энергоресурсов equity market рынок акций equity market рынок ценных бумаг eurobond market рынок еврооблигаций eurocurrency market евровалютный рынок eurodollar bond market рынок евродолларовых облигаций exchange market валютный рынок excited market оживленный рынок expectant market предполагаемый рынок export market внешний рынок factor market рынок факторов производства falling market понижательная рыночная конъюнктура financial market финансовый рынок market спрос; to find a (ready) market пользоваться спросом; there's no market for these goods на эти товары нет спроса market: find a market находить рынок firm market устойчивый рынок flat market бирж. вялый рынок flat market бирж. неоживленный рынок flood the market наводнять рынок fluctuating market нестабильный рынок foreign capital market рынок иностранного капитала foreign exchange market рынок иностранной валюты foreign market внешний рынок forward bond market бирж. рынок форвардных облигаций forward exchange market форвардный валютный рынок forward market форвардный рынок fourth market прямая торговля крупными партиями ценных бумаг между институциональными инвесторами free market свободный рынок, торговля на основе неограниченной конкуренции free market свободный рынок freight market рынок грузовых перевозок futures market бирж. фьючерсный рынок geographical market географический рынок glut the market затоваривать рынок goods market товарный рынок grey market внебиржевой рынок ценных бумаг grey market нерегулируемый денежный рынок grey market рынок новых облигаций heterogeneous market неоднородный рынок homogeneous market однородный рынок market торговля; brisk market бойкая торговля; hours of market часы торговли illegal market нелегальный рынок illegal market черный рынок illicit market нелегальный рынок illicit market черный рынок imperfect market несовершенный рынок import market рынок импорта inactive market вялый рынок inactive market неактивный рынок insurance market рынок страхования interbank market межбанковский рынок internal market внутренний рынок kerb market бирж. внебиржевой рынок kerb market бирж. торговля ценными бумагами вне фондовой биржи kerbstone market бирж. внебиржевой рынок kerbstone market бирж. торговля ценными бумагами вне фондовой биржи labour market рынок рабочей силы labour market рынок труда leading-edge market рынок передовой технологии loan market рынок ссуд loan market рынок ссудного капитала lose a market терять рынок make a market создавать рынок market (the M.) = common market биржа market городской рынок market находить рынок сбыта market объем потенциальных перевозок market покупать market привезти на рынок; купить или продать на рынке market продавать; сбывать; находить рынок сбыта market продавать на рынке market амер. продовольственный магазин market пускать в оборот market реализовывать на рынке market рынок, базар market рынок market рынок транспортных услуг market рыночная цена market рыночные цены; the market rose цены поднялись; to play the market спекулировать на бирже market рыночные цены market attr. рыночный; market research обобщение данных о конъюнктуре рынка market сбывать на рынке market сбыт; to come into the market поступить в продажу; to put on the market пустить в продажу; to be on the market продаваться market сбыт market состояние конъюнктуры market специализированный продовольственный магазин market спрос; to find a (ready) market пользоваться спросом; there's no market for these goods на эти товары нет спроса market спрос market торговать market торговля; brisk market бойкая торговля; hours of market часы торговли market торговля Market: Market: Common market Европейское экономическое сообщество market: market: confident market устойчивый рынок market attr. рыночный; market research обобщение данных о конъюнктуре рынка research: market market анализ рыночного потенциала нового продукта market market анализ состояния рынка market market изучение возможностей рынка market market изучение рыночной конъюнктуры market market исследование рынка market market маркетинговое исследование market рыночные цены; the market rose цены поднялись; to play the market спекулировать на бирже mass market рынок товаров массового производства money market денежный рынок, валютный рынок money market денежный рынок money market рынок краткосрочного капитала mortgage deed market рынок залоговых сертификатов move the market продвигать товар на рынок near market ближний рынок negotiated deposit market договорный депозитный рынок new issue market рынок новых эмиссий ocean shipping market рынок морских перевозок off-the-board market внебиржевой рынок offshore market зарубежный рынок oil market рынок нефти on free market на свободном рынке one-way market односторонний рынок open market открытый рынок open: market market вольный рынок; the post is still open место еще не занято options market бирж. рынок опционов overseas market внешний рынок perfect market идеальный рынок physical market наличный рынок market рыночные цены; the market rose цены поднялись; to play the market спекулировать на бирже primary market первичный рынок primary market рынок новых ценных бумаг primary market рынок сырьевых товаров primary market рынок товара, лежащего в основе срочного контракта primary market рынок финансового инструмента, лежащего в основе срочного контракта profitable market рентабельный рынок property market рынок недвижимости market сбыт; to come into the market поступить в продажу; to put on the market пустить в продажу; to be on the market продаваться put: market yourself in his place поставь себя на его место; to put on the market выпускать в продажу raw material market рынок сырья ready market готовый рынок real estate market рынок недвижимости receding market рынок со снижающимися курсами reseller market рынок перепродаваемых товаров rig the market искусственно вздувать курсы ценных бумаг rig: market действовать нечестно; мошенничать; to rig the market искусственно повышать или понижать цены rigging the market искусственное вздувание курсов ценных бумаг rising market растущий рынок sagging market рынок, характеризующийся понижением цен sagging market рынок, характеризующийся падением курсов second market вторичный рынок second market второстепенный рынок second-hand market второстепенный рынок second-hand market рынок подержанных товаров secondary labour market вторичный рынок труда secondary market вторичный рынок secondary mortgage market вторичный ипотечный рынок securities market рынок ценных бумаг seller's market эк. рынок, на котором спрос превышает предложение seller's market рынок продавцов seller's market рыночная конъюнктура, выгодная для продавцов sensitive market неустойчивый рынок sensitive market рынок, способный к быстрой реакции sensitive market рынок, отражающий конъюнктурные колебания sensitive: market чувствительный; восприимчивый; a sensitive ear (болезненно) тонкий слух; sensitive market эк. неустойчивый рынок share market фондовая биржа share market фондовый рынок sheltered market закрытая организация (например, фондовая биржа) single European market единый европейский рынок slack market неактивный рынок с большим разрывом между ценами продавца и покупателя slackening market неактивный рынок с большим разрывом между ценами продавца и покупателя slipping market рынок с тенденцией понижения курсов ценных бумаг spot market наличный рынок spot market рынок наличного товара spot market рынок реального товара steady market стабильный рынок steady market устойчивый рынок steady the market стабилизировать рынок stock market уровень цен на бирже stock market фондовая биржа stock market фондовый рынок street market внебиржевой рынок street market неофициальная биржа street market сделки, заключенные после официального закрытия биржи swamp the market наводнять рынок target market целевой рынок test market пробный рынок test the market проверять рынок market спрос; to find a (ready) market пользоваться спросом; there's no market for these goods на эти товары нет спроса thin market вялый рынок thin market бирж. неактивный рынок thin market рынок с незначительным числом участников и низким уровнем активности third market внебиржевой рынок ценных бумаг third market рынок ценных бумаг, не удовлетворяющих требованиям фондовой биржи tight labour market рынок труда с высоким спросом на рабочую силу tight market активный рынок с незначительным разрывом между ценами продавца и покупателя tight market рынок с недостаточным предложением trading market бирж. вторичный рынок training market рынок профобразования two-way market рынок, на котором постоянно котируются цены покупателя и продавца two-way market рынок ценных бумаг, на котором заключается большое количество сделок без резких колебаний цен uncertain market рынок в неопределенном состоянии unchanged market неизменившийся рынок underground market черный рынок unofficial market неофициальная биржа unregulated labour market стихийный рынок рабочей силы unsettled market неустойчивый рынок untapped market неосвоенный рынок via interbank market через межбанковский рынок weak market рынок, характеризующийся преобладанием продавцов и понижением цен weaken the market снижать активность на рынке wholesale market внутренний рынок (рынок, на котором продавцами и покупателями выступают дилеры за свой счет) world market мировой рынок world: market line-up расстановка сил в мире; world market мировой рынок; world trade международная торговля

   1) The Knowledge of Ourselves

   We come therefore now to that knowledge whereunto the ancient oracle directeth us, which is the knowledge of ourselves; which deserveth the more accurate handling, by how much it toucheth us more nearly. This knowledge, as it is the end and term of natural philosophy in the intention of man, so notwithstanding it is but a portion of natural philosophy in the continent of nature.... [W]e proceed to human philosophy or Humanity, which hath two parts: the one considereth man segregate, or distributively; the other congregate, or in society. So as Human philosophy is either Simple and Particular, or Conjugate and Civil. Humanity Particular consisteth of the same parts whereof man consisteth; that is, of knowledges which respect the Body, and of knowledges that respect the Mind... how the one discloseth the other and how the one worketh upon the other... [:] the one is honored with the inquiry of Aristotle, and the other of Hippocrates. (Bacon, 1878, pp. 236-237)

   2) As a Science, Psychology Is Distinct

   The claims of Psychology to rank as a distinct science are... not smaller but greater than those of any other science. If its phenomena are contemplated objectively, merely as nervo-muscular adjustments by which the higher organisms from moment to moment adapt their actions to environing co-existences and sequences, its degree of specialty, even then, entitles it to a separate place. The moment the element of feeling, or consciousness, is used to interpret nervo-muscular adjustments as thus exhibited in the living beings around, objective Psychology acquires an additional, and quite exceptional, distinction. (Spencer, 1896, p. 141)

   3) Psychology Can Never Be an Exact Natural Science

   Kant once declared that psychology was incapable of ever raising itself to the rank of an exact natural science. The reasons that he gives... have often been repeated in later times. In the first place, Kant says, psychology cannot become an exact science because mathematics is inapplicable to the phenomena of the internal sense; the pure internal perception, in which mental phenomena must be constructed,-time,-has but one dimension. In the second place, however, it cannot even become an experimental science, because in it the manifold of internal observation cannot be arbitrarily varied,-still less, another thinking subject be submitted to one's experiments, comformably to the end in view; moreover, the very fact of observation means alteration of the observed object. (Wundt, 1904, p. 6)

   4) How a " Mathematical" Psychology May Be Realized in Practice

   It is [Gustav] Fechner's service to have found and followed the true way; to have shown us how a "mathematical psychology" may, within certain limits, be realized in practice.... He was the first to show how Herbart's idea of an "exact psychology" might be turned to practical account. (Wundt, 1904, pp. 6-7)

   5) The Rights of Psychology as Science

   "Mind," "intellect," "reason," "understanding," etc. are concepts... that existed before the advent of any scientific psychology. The fact that the naive consciousness always and everywhere points to internal experience as a special source of knowledge, may, therefore, be accepted for the moment as sufficient testimony to the rights of psychology as science.... "Mind," will accordingly be the subject, to which we attribute all the separate facts of internal observation as predicates. The subject itself is determined p. 17) wholly and exclusively by its predicates. (Wundt, 1904,

   6) The Study of Animal Psychology

   The study of animal psychology may be approached from two different points of view. We may set out from the notion of a kind of comparative physiology of mind, a universal history of the development of mental life in the organic world. Or we may make human psychology the principal object of investigation. Then, the expressions of mental life in animals will be taken into account only so far as they throw light upon the evolution of consciousness in man.... Human psychology... may confine itself altogether to man, and generally has done so to far too great an extent. There are plenty of psychological text-books from which you would hardly gather that there was any other conscious life than the human. (Wundt, 1907, pp. 340-341)

   7) The Behaviorist's Formulation

   The Behaviorist began his own formulation of the problem of psychology by sweeping aside all medieval conceptions. He dropped from his scientific vocabulary all subjective terms such as sensation, perception, image, desire, purpose, and even thinking and emotion as they were subjectively defined. (Watson, 1930, pp. 5-6)

   8) Man Is a Microcosm

   According to the medieval classification of the sciences, psychology is merely a chapter of special physics, although the most important chapter; for man is a microcosm; he is the central figure of the universe. (deWulf, 1956, p. 125)

   9) Brief Overview of Psychology's History

   At the beginning of this century the prevailing thesis in psychology was Associationism.... Behavior proceeded by the stream of associations: each association produced its successors, and acquired new attachments with the sensations arriving from the environment.

   In the first decade of the century a reaction developed to this doctrine through the work of the Wurzburg school. Rejecting the notion of a completely self-determining stream of associations, it introduced the task ( Aufgabe) as a necessary factor in describing the process of thinking. The task gave direction to thought. A noteworthy innovation of the Wurzburg school was the use of systematic introspection to shed light on the thinking process and the contents of consciousness. The result was a blend of mechanics and phenomenalism, which gave rise in turn to two divergent antitheses, Behaviorism and the Gestalt movement. The behavioristic reaction insisted that introspection was a highly unstable, subjective procedure.... Behaviorism reformulated the task of psychology as one of explaining the response of organisms as a function of the stimuli impinging upon them and measuring both objectively. However, Behaviorism accepted, and indeed reinforced, the mechanistic assumption that the connections between stimulus and response were formed and maintained as simple, determinate functions of the environment.

   The Gestalt reaction took an opposite turn. It rejected the mechanistic nature of the associationist doctrine but maintained the value of phenomenal observation. In many ways it continued the Wurzburg school's insistence that thinking was more than association-thinking has direction given to it by the task or by the set of the subject. Gestalt psychology elaborated this doctrine in genuinely new ways in terms of holistic principles of organization.

   Today psychology lives in a state of relatively stable tension between the poles of Behaviorism and Gestalt psychology.... (Newell & Simon, 1963, pp. 279-280)

    10) Psychological Research Is Not Building toward Systematic Clarity

   As I examine the fate of our oppositions, looking at those already in existence as guide to how they fare and shape the course of science, it seems to me that clarity is never achieved. Matters simply become muddier and muddier as we go down through time. Thus, far from providing the rungs of a ladder by which psychology gradually climbs to clarity, this form of conceptual structure leads rather to an ever increasing pile of issues, which we weary of or become diverted from, but never really settle. (Newell, 1973b, pp. 288-289)

    11) Psychology as a Scientific Discipline

   The subject matter of psychology is as old as reflection. Its broad practical aims are as dated as human societies. Human beings, in any period, have not been indifferent to the validity of their knowledge, unconcerned with the causes of their behavior or that of their prey and predators. Our distant ancestors, no less than we, wrestled with the problems of social organization, child rearing, competition, authority, individual differences, personal safety. Solving these problems required insights-no matter how untutored-into the psychological dimensions of life. Thus, if we are to follow the convention of treating psychology as a young discipline, we must have in mind something other than its subject matter. We must mean that it is young in the sense that physics was young at the time of Archimedes or in the sense that geometry was "founded" by Euclid and "fathered" by Thales. Sailing vessels were launched long before Archimedes discovered the laws of bouyancy [ sic], and pillars of identical circumference were constructed before anyone knew that C IID. We do not consider the ship builders and stone cutters of antiquity physicists and geometers. Nor were the ancient cave dwellers psychologists merely because they rewarded the good conduct of their children. The archives of folk wisdom contain a remarkable collection of achievements, but craft-no matter how perfected-is not science, nor is a litany of successful accidents a discipline. If psychology is young, it is young as a scientific discipline but it is far from clear that psychology has attained this status. (Robinson, 1986, p. 12)

 

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