Music and the Making of Modern Science
152 Chapter 10 Still others offered various attempts to synthesize the Newtonian emission theory with some kind of medium, most ...
Euler: From Sound to Light 153 Bernoulli ’ s analogy shows the power of the example of musical sound as a formative influence in ...
154 Chapter 10 made substantial changes to his argument by foregrounding the well-known controversy between medium and emission ...
Euler: From Sound to Light 155 On the other hand, Euler ’ s arguments brought forward other aspects of waves that are no less co ...
156 Chapter 10 Thus, Euler ’ s concept of frequency, perhaps his most important contribution to the theory of light, comes direc ...
Euler: From Sound to Light 157 would “ sup-pose ” or “ hear below ” the lowest notated pitch the fundamental bass needed to make ...
158 Chapter 10 succeeding thirty years. For instance, he changed his mind several times about whether red or violet had the high ...
Euler: From Sound to Light 159 A B because B – F moves strongly to the resolution E – C ( ♪ sound example 10.3). The 4:5:6:7 rat ...
160 Chapter 10 sound, often using musical examples. He explains that “ difference of color is to the organ of vision what sharp ...
The crucial evidence for the wave theory of light was the work of an amazingly multital- ented individual, who, though surely un ...
162 Chapter 11 the function of the lens in accommodation, the process through which the eye adjusts its focus from near to dista ...
Young’s Musical Optics 163 scattered on his table, and his room had all the appearance of belonging to an idle man. I once found ...
164 Chapter 11 chimney. The physician in him notes the slight effect of every pulsation of the heart on the lungs blowing air th ...
Young’s Musical Optics 165 Figure 11.1 Young ’ s illustration of his experiments in “ Experiments and Inquiries Respecting Sound ...
166 Chapter 11 supposing any two or more vibrations in the same direction to be combined, the joint motion will be represented b ...
Young’s Musical Optics 167 Figure 11.2 Plate 4 from Young ’ s “ Experiments and Inquiries Respecting Sound and Light ” (1800). F ...
168 Chapter 11 visual appearance of a sounding body becomes of interest as he looks more and more closely at the vibrating strin ...
Young’s Musical Optics 169 Figure 11.3 Young ’ s comparison of different schemes of musical temperament (1800), including his ow ...
170 Chapter 11 resemble, in scope and structure, his concurrent comparative work on languages, as if they were various possible ...
Young’s Musical Optics 171 Figure 11.4 Young ’ s illustrations of measurements made on his own eyes, from “ On the Mechanism of ...
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