An Elementary Treatise on Sound: Being the Second Volume of a Course of Natural Philosophy, Designed for the Use of High Schools and CollegesJ. Munroe and Company, 1836 - 220 páginas |
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2g H Acad Amst Auditu Berl BERNOULLI CAUCHY Chim CHLADNI Chordarum CHORON Chym Comm Communication of Vibrations condensed Cordes Corps Solides crispations d'Harmonie d'une Verge Déc DELEAU distance echo Edinb elasticity Élémens élémentaire Encyc équations EULER experiments feet FÉTIS fluid générale Harmony heard Hist Human Voice Instit Instruments Journ L'Art l'Audition l'équilibre l'Homme l'Organe de l'Ouie la Voix Humaine Leipz Lettre Lond Math Mém membrane Miscel molecules Monochord motion motu vibratorio Mouvement des Corps Musical Intervals Musikalische nodal lines nouvelle observed Organ of Hearing particles Petrop Phil Phys pipe Plain-chant plate POISSON Polytech pratique Principes propagation of sound quam RAMEAU Recherches Rozier SAUVEUR SAVART sonorous Strings Sur les Vibrations surface Système de Musique Temperament temperature Théorie tion Traité Trans Turin velocity of sound Venet Ventriloquism Vibrations des Corps Vibrations of Systems VIDRON Voix wave
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Página 11 - ... feet. By a most unlucky coincidence, the precise focus of divergence at the former station was chosen for the place of the confessional. — Secrets never intended for the public ear thus became known, to the dismay of the...
Página 111 - ... them may be said to possess another sense, agreeing with our own solely in the -medium by which it is excited, and possibly wholly unaffected by those slower vibrations of which we are sensible.
Página xix - Anciens, où l'on expose le Principe des Proportions authentiques dites de Pythagore, et de divers systèmes de Musique chez les Grecs, les Chinois et les Egyptiens. Avec un Parallèle entre le Système des Egyptiens et celui des Modernes.
Página 11 - Sicily, the slightest whisper is borne with perfect distinctness from the great western door to the cornice behind the high altar, a distance of 250 feet. By a most unlucky coincidence, the precise focus of divergence at the former station was chosen for the place of the confessional. Secrets never intended for the public ear thus became known, to the dismay of the confessors and the scandal of the people, by the resort of the curious to the opposite point, (which seems to have been discovered accidentally,)...
Página 11 - Sussex repeats twenty-one syllables. Sir John Herschel mentions an echo in the Manfroni palace at Venice, where a person standing in the centre of a square room about twenty-five feet high with a concave roof, hears the stamp of his foot repeated a great many times, but as his position deviates from the centre, the echoes become feebler, and at a short distance entirely cease. The same phenomenon, he remarks, occurs in the large room of the library of the museum at Naples. M. Genefay has described...
Página xix - Considérations sur les divers systèmes de la musique ancienne et moderne, et sur le genre enharmonique des Grecs ; avec une dissertation préliminaire, relative à l'origine du chant, de la lyte, et de lajlûle attribuée à Pan. Paris, Goujon, 1810, 2 vol. in-8°.
Página 65 - ... variety in the modes of aerial vibration, and the astonishing acuteness and delicacy of the ear, thus capable of appreciating the minutest differences in the laws of molecular oscillation. All mere noises are occasioned by irregular impulses communicated to the ear, and if they be short, sudden, and repeated beyond a certain degree of quickness, the ear loses the intervals of silence and the sound appears continuous.
Página 8 - Foster, in the third polar expedition of Captain Parry, found that he could hold a conversation with a man across the harbour of Port Bowen, a distance of 6,696 feet, or about a mile and a quarter.
Página 8 - Dr Hearn heard guns fired at Stockholm in 1685 at the distance of 180 British miles; and the cannonade of a naval engagement between the Dutch and English in 1672 was heard across England as far as Shrewsbury, and even in Wales, a distance of above 200 miles.
Página 78 - ... fundamental one by fixed laws of harmony, and which are called therefore harmonic sounds. They are the very same, which, by the production of distinct nodes, may be insulated, as it were, and cleared from the confusing effect of the co-existent sounds. They are, however, much more distinct in bells and other sounding bodies than in strings, in which only delicate ears can detect them.