Johannes von Kries: Principles of the Probability Calculus / Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Bd.59 (PDF)

Keith K. Niall is the Editor and Translator of the Springer book: Erwin Schrödinger's Color Theory (ISBN: 978-3-319-64619-0), as well as the Editor of the Springer book Vision and Displays for Military and Security Applications (ISBN: 978-1-4419-1722-5), which was subsequently translated for the National Defense Industry Press in Beijing (ISBN: 978-7-118-09146-5). Earlier he translated an 1882 article by Johannes von Kries on psychophysics: 'Über die Messung intensiver Grössen und über das sogenannte psychophysische Gesetz.' He was a Defence Scientist with Defence Research & Development Canada (DRDC Toronto), serving as an Exchange Scientist to the Air Force Research Laboratory (Mesa, Arizona), and as First Secretary within the Canadian Defence Liaison Staff (Washington) at the Canadian Embassy to the USA. He received his Ph.D. from McGill University in 1988, and pursued postdoctoral studies at Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario) and the Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine. He has written on topics of the application of projective geometry to problems of visual form perception, on concerns with the phenomenon known as the mental rotation effect, on the perception of distance with night vision devices, and on a flexible micromirror display for high-resolution display projection.