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Tyndall, J. (1867). On sound. London: Longmans, Green, and Co Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (19/08/2015, 14:27) |
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| Resource type: Book Published BibTeX citation key: Tyndall1867 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Ambiguity, Definition of sound Creators: Tyndall Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co. (London) |
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Tyndall's book was written four years after, and is heavily indebted to, von Helmholtz's Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen.
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p. 2
"It is the motion imparted to this, the auditory nerve, which, in the brain, is translated into sound" and, discussing exploding gases in a lecture theatre, "every ear in this room is conscious of a shock, to which the name of sound is given."
Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard
(03/12/2004, 10:36)
Keywords: Ambiguity |
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p. 4
using the analogy of balls in a row hitting against each other (thus the motion of the first ball is transferred to the last), Tyndall states that "thus is sound conveyed from particle to particle through the air" and yet, when describing how this motion sets the tympanic membrane vibrating, which motion is itself transmitted along the auditory nerve to the brain, it is in the brain that "the vibrations are translated into sound"
Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard
(03/12/2004, 10:36)
Keywords: Ambiguity |