 | 1824 - 628 páginas
...perceptible by most ears, although the vibrations of a note at the higher extreme are six or seven hundred fold more frequent than those which constitute the...so remote, that the animals who perceive them may he said to possess another sense, agreeing with our own solely in the medium by which it is excited,... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1826 - 676 páginas
...but endued with a power of exciting, and a sense that perceives, vibrations indeed of the same nature as those which constitute our ordinary sounds, but...them may be said to possess another sense, agreeing "joith our own solely in the medium by which it is excited, and possibly wholly unaffected by these... | |
 | James Rennie - 1831 - 434 páginas
...endowed with a power of exciting, and a sense that perceives, vibrations indeed of the same nature as those which constitute our ordinary sounds, but...which it is excited, and possibly wholly unaffected by the slower vibrations of which we are sensible*." » Dr. Wollaston irt Phil; Trans, for 1820, p. 314.... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 390 páginas
...insects hearing nothing in common with us, but endowed with a power of exciting, and a sense which perceives vibrations of the same nature indeed as...own solely in the medium by which it is excited.' The velocity of sound is uniform, and is independent of the nature, extent, and intensity of the primitive... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 666 páginas
...insects hearing nothing in common with us, but endowed with a power of exciting, and a sense which perceives vibrations of the same nature indeed as...own solely in the medium by which it is excited." The velocity of sound is uniform, and is independent of the nature, extent, and intensity^f the primitive... | |
 | The Medical Quarterly Review VOL.II - 1834 - 522 páginas
...the same vibrations which constitute our ordinary sounds, but so remote that the animal who perceives them may be said to possess another sense, agreeing...which it is excited, and possibly wholly unaffected by tho^e slower vibrations of which we are sensible. — Dr. Wollasiou, in Abstract of Phil. Trans. THE... | |
 | 1846 - 610 páginas
...hut PO remote, that the animal which perceives them may be said to possess another sense, a<rrccin<* with our own, solely in the medium by which it is excited, and possibly wholly unallectcd by those slower vibrations of which we are sensible.' This seems to us a striking and beautiful... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1849 - 568 páginas
...insects hearing nothing in common with us, but endowed with a power of exciting, and a sense which perceives vibrations of the same nature indeed as...own solely in the medium by which it is excited." M. Savart, so well known for the number and beauty of his researches in acoustics, has proved that... | |
 | Robert Stodart Wyld - 1875 - 590 páginas
...insects, hearing nothing in common with us, but endowed with a power of exciting, and a sense which perceives vibrations of the same nature indeed as...own solely in the medium by which it is excited." 23. As the pitch of a note depends on the rapidity of vibration, so it is a fact confirmatory of this,... | |
 | 1821 - 510 páginas
...in common with us, but endued with a power of exciting, and a sense that perceives vibrations tions of the same nature indeed as those which constitute...remote, that the animals who perceive them may be said tj possess another sense, agreeing with our own solely in the medium by which it is excited, and possibly... | |
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... like the Grylli, whose powers appear to commence nearly where ours terminate, may have the faculty of hearing still sharper sounds which we do not know to exist, and that there may be other insects hearing nothing in common with us, but endowed with... 