Fatigue / by A. Mosso ; Translated by Margaret Drummond and W.B. Drummond.

  • Mosso, A. (Angelo), 1846-1910.
Date:
1906
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    of psychology and much of that of physiology that they might well have been thought beyond the sphere of measurement. Yet of late years, thanks mainly to the impulse given by the wonderful patience and ingenuity of the Leipzig school of psychologists (Weber, Wundt, Fechner, etc.), scores of instruments have been invented to record and measure the vital and mental processes. Of these one of the most interesting and important is Pro- fessor Mosso’s ergograph or fatigue-recorder, with which instrument he performed the experiments de- scribed in the text, on which most of his conclusions are based. Those interested in education have not been slow to see how this instrument may aid them in their special study, and with it various observations have been made on school children with the object of ascertaining the degree of fatigue attending different studies, the time of day at which they can be most profitably pursued, and the best division of the school day as regards play and work. Professor Mosso’s experiments were on adult sub- jects only, yet his results will be found both sug- gestive and illuminating by the practical teacher ; the book will not only give him much that is new, but it will give him the experimental proof and the physio- logical basis of many of the empirical maxims of his science. Without pretending even to summarize the main contributions of the work to our educational theory, we may perhaps be allowed to call attention to a few points. The convincing series of experiments in Chapter X,