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Heinrich Gustav Magnus to Faraday   10 August 1853

Berlin 10 Aug 53.

Dear Sir

Allow me to introduce to you Prof Helmholtz1 from Königsberg i/P2 who has published the interesting papers “On the velocity of the Nervous Principle[“]3, on Complementary Colours4 and many others[.]

Yours | Very sincere | G. Magnus

Dr. Faraday.

1
Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894, DSB). Professor of Physiology at Königsberg, 1849-1855.
2
“in Prussia”.
3
Helmholtz (1850).
4
Helmholtz (1852).

Bibliography

HELMHOLTZ, Hermann (1850): “Ueber die Fortpflanzungsgeschwindigkeit der Nervenreizung”, Pogg. Ann., 79: 329-30.

HELMHOLTZ, Hermann (1852): “Ueber die Theorie der zusammengesetzten Farben”, Pogg. Ann., 87: 45-66.

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