what was in wundt first labratory in lepzig?

-- Amy Smith (slamydog@hotmail.com), January 20, 2002

Answers

There are photographs of Wundt's complication apparatus available as well as at least one photo of Wundt and some of his students in the Leipzig laboratory. I have these in a set of 100 slides that was passed on to me my a colleague who retired several years ago. I believe the set, now expanded apparently to 300 slides, may be available from the Archives of the History of American psychology for use with a rental fee.

The Archives website is http://www3.uakron.edu/ahap/. Look under the category "Products" and link to "Price list." See also the following book with many photographs including apparatuses and likely some of Wundt's. Your library may have this book. Popplestone, John A. & Marion White McPherson.(1999). An illustrated history of American psychology, 2nd ed. Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press.

-- Roger K. Thomas (rkthomas@uga.edu), January 22, 2002.

[Posted for PB by cdg.]

The 1980 text contains a full chapter by Popplestone and McPherson on Wundt's lab equipment, with many excellent photogrphs (pp 226-257). Other chapters, including my own, contain drawings and sketches which are descriptive of the equipment.

-- Peter Behrens (pjb4@PSU.EDU), January 23, 2002.

[Posted for SB by cdg.]

While searching for something else (classic serendipity), I recently stumbled across a website for the museum of the history of psychological instrumentation at Montclair State University. It's at: http://www.chss.montclair.edu/psychology/museum/museum.html

It contains a list of the 1903 Eduard Zimmermann (Leipzig) catalog of psychological and physiological equipment (and with photographs!). A number of these devices have Wundt's name attached.

-- Stephen Black (sblack@UBISHOPS.CA), January 23, 2002.

[Posted for LTB by cdg.]

I haven't checked the source but what about Bringmann and Tweney's book, Wundt Studies? I recall an article in there on Wundt's lab based on archival records from Leipzig.

-- Ludy T. Benjamin (ltb@psyc.tamu.edu), January 23, 2002.

I didn't read it but maybe you may find it interesting: W. Bringmann & R. D. Tweney (Eds.). (1980). Wundt studies: A centennial collection. Toronto: C. J. Hogrefe.

-- Rock Faulkner (rock.faulkner@umontreal.ca), January 23, 2002.