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Darrigol, O. (2010). The analogy between light and sound in the history of optics from the Ancient Greeks to Isaac Newton: Part 1. Centaurus, 52(2), 117–155. Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (10/4/23, 4:45 PM) Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (10/4/23, 4:49 PM) |
| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0498.2010.00167.x BibTeX citation key: Darrigol2010 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Definition of sound, Philosophy Creators: Darrigol Publisher: Wiley Online Library Collection: Centaurus |
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"Analogies between hearing and seeing already existed in ancient Greek theories of perception. The present paper follows the evolution of such analogies until the rise of 17th century optics, with due regard to the diversity of their origins and nature but with particular emphasis on their bearing on the physical concepts of light and sound. Whereas the old Greek analogies were only side effects of the unifying concepts of perception, the analogies of the 17th century played an important role in constructing optical theories by imitation of acoustic theories, or vice versa. This transition depended on several factors including the changing relations between optics, music, mathematics, and physics, the diversity of early modern concepts of sound, and the rise of a new physics based on experimentation and mechanical explanation."
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