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    Psychology as a natural science in the eighteenth century

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    Psychology considered as a natural science began as Aristotelian "physics" or "natural philosophy" of the soul. C. Wolff placed psychology under metaphysics, coordinate with cosmology. Scottish thinkers placed it within moral philosophy, but distinguished its "physical" laws from properly moral laws (for guiding conduct). Several Germans sought to establish an autonomous empirical psychology as a branch of natural science. British and French visual theorists developed mathematically precise theories of size and distance perception; they created instruments to test these theories and to measure visual phenomena such as the duration of visual impressions. These investigators typically were dualists who included mental phenomena within nature

    Observationes consilia et leges practicae

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    autore: Otto Casmann Scholae Stadensis olim rectoreFiktiver Druckort "Arctopoli" = Ber

    Othonis Casmanni || SOMATOLO-||GIA, PHYSICA || GENERALIS,|| Seu || COMMENTATIONVM || Disceptationum[que] Physicarum || SYNDROMVS PROBLEMATICVS. I.|| De NATVRALIVM Corporum in genere Es-||SENTIA, & QVALITATIBVS PHYSI-||CIS, tum manifestis tum occultis,|| ... ||

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    Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: FRANCOFVRTI || Apud M. Zachariam Palthenium,|| In consortio Ionae Rhodii.|| ANNO CHRISTI M.D.IIC.|

    Othonis Casmanni Biographia, Sive De Vita Hominis Naturali : Quam Homo vi animae suae viventis, & corpus suum animantis, naturaliter vivit ; Meletēma I.

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