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Book Title
Principles of Cerebral Mechanics
Publication Name
Principles of Cerebral Mechanics
Title
Principles of Cerebral Mechanics
Author
Charles Cros
Contributor
Doug Skinner (Introduction by)
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
1939663792
EAN
9781939663795
ISBN
9781939663795
Publisher
Wakefield Press
Genre
Science, Fiction
Topic
Literary, Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology (See Also Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology)
Release Date
24/08/2021
Release Year
2021
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.4in
Item Length
6.9in
Original Language
French
Publication Year
2021
Item Width
4.3in
Item Weight
4 Oz
Number of Pages
120 Pages

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A visionary treatise on perception from the extraordinary polymath Charles Cros--poet, friend to Rimbaud and Verlaine, and inventor of color photography and the phonograph Establishing the author's standing as the inventeur maudit of his time, Principles of Cerebral Mechanics was first presented to the Academy of Sciences in 1872, but was not published until 1879, and then only in fragmentary form. Setting out to understand the mechanics of perception--the organs of which at the time were too small and inaccessible to be studied directly--Cros instead attempted to reverse-engineer the sensory organs. Whereas his previous inventions in the realms of audio recording and color photography had focused on technology for the senses, with this ambitious essay Cros turned to conceptualizing the technology of the senses themselves: rather than the transmission of color to the retina, here he instead attempted to conceive of how color was transmitted from the retina to the brain. By approaching the human brain as a "mechanism of registration," Cros' essay can be set alongside the groundbreaking work of such revolutionary figures who transformed modern vision as Étienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge. Charles Cros (1842-88) was as much Renaissance man as he was poète maudit. A bohemian poet who drank with Verlaine and provided housing to Rimbaud, he also developed the comic monologue as a theatrical genre, and invented both the phonograph (which he named the "paléophone") and color photography (though he failed to patent either before Thomas Edison or Louis Ducos du Hauron), among other such inventions as a nonmetallic battery and a musical stenographer.

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Publisher
Wakefield Press
ISBN-10
1939663792
ISBN-13
9781939663795
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23050401935

Product Key Features

Book Title
Principles of Cerebral Mechanics
Author
Charles Cros
Original Language
French
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology (See Also Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology)
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Science, Fiction
Number of Pages
120 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
6.9in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
4.3in
Item Weight
4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Qp441.C7613 2021
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2022-507091
Dewey Decimal
612.82
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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