On October 22, 1850, Christopher D. Green wrote: > Does he not tell this story in /Elements of Psychophysics/? It has been > translated, but if it is not there, your student may be out of luck > because much of GTF's writings have not been translated. The Book I of the"Elements" was translated into English by Helmut Adler (RIP) but Book II has not yet been translated (I looked at Helmut's translation while the obsessive "Great Iceberg Hunt" was on -- no iceberg). The book is available on http://books.google.com but in "snippet" view, meaning that only a small piece of text is available. The text in the book is searchable and there is one instance of use of the word dream but it does not seem to be the dream in question. One can access the book and more info (including locating a library that might have it) at: http://books.google.com/books?lr=&num=100&id=ZHN9AAAAMAAJ&dq=fechner+%22helmut+adler%22&q=dream&pgis=1#search_anchor or http://tinyurl.com/c9tahb
It should be pointed out that several of Fechner's books have been translated into English and though most psychologists would not be interested in them, it is possible that Fechner covers the dream in one of them. One source for what is in print by Fechner is to use the WorldCat library data. Here is the list of books with Fechner as author: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3Agustav+fechner&fq=&se=$d&sd=desc&qt=sort_$d_desc or http://tinyurl.com/bvz83h Some of these are available on Amazon. See: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Gustav%20Fechner or http://tinyurl.com/d227xw -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
