Music and the Making of Modern Science
172 Chapter 11 Though these excruciating measurements and Young ’ s ensuing physiological deductions are the bulk of his paper, ...
Young’s Musical Optics 173 equally the particles in unison with yellow and blue, and produce the same effect as a light composed ...
174 Chapter 11 with the known velocity of sound, and the distances of the surfaces. ” Once again, music gives the point of depar ...
Young’s Musical Optics 175 Young presented new evidence to the Royal Society in “ An Account of Some Cases of the Production of ...
176 Chapter 11 the deviations of the various colored fringes, which coincided with those he had measured in Newton ’ s rings.^44 ...
Young’s Musical Optics 177 with science it fed and profited from. This audience also included women, still excluded from the uni ...
178 Chapter 11 sound, consisting simply in the direct and retrograde motions of the particles in the direc- tion of the radius [ ...
Young’s Musical Optics 179 This concluding example confronts us with the full richness of Young ’ s translation of sound vibrati ...
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Thomas Young ’ s translation of sound into light provided a crucial example for parallel work connecting sound with electricity ...
182 Chapter 12 intervention in physics made invisible electricity take a visible form. In 1777, he completed construction of a l ...
Electric Sounds 183 A BC Figure 12.1 (a) An electrophorus, composed of a “ cake ” of resinous material (bottom) and a metal plat ...
184 Chapter 12 Figure 12.2 (a) Chladni ’ s figures ( Acoustics , 1830). (b) John Tyndall ’ s illustration of the process of form ...
Electric Sounds 185 whose attendant “ very high sound ” changed according the squares of the ratios he had found: “ Imagine my a ...
186 Chapter 12 Figure 12.3 Chladni demonstrating his figures to Napoleon (1808). (Courtesy Deutsches Museum, Munich.) ...
Electric Sounds 187 A B Figure 12.4 (a) Savart ’ s illustration of the nodal pattern of a violin in relation to its structure; ( ...
188 Chapter 12 different species of matter. Yet the unitive spirit of Naturphilosophie led Ø rsted to hypothesize that they were ...
Electric Sounds 189 as magnetic) poles or that magnets (as well as electric currents) could decompose water, not to speak of his ...
190 Chapter 12 unity , Ritter and Ø rsted understood electricity to underlie the senses, no less than the senses provide evidenc ...
Electric Sounds 191 Prefacing his discussion of the multidimensionality of these phenomena, Ø rsted men- tions a general philoso ...
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