Early alternative derivations of Fechner
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Sergio Cesare Masin; Verena Zudini; Mauro Antonelli
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Article
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2009
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Historians of psychology, notably Boring, fostered Fechner's idea that Weber's law is the indispensable basis for the derivation of the logarithmic psychophysical law. However, it is shown here that Bernoulli in 1738 and Thurstone in 1931 derived the logarithmic law using principles oth