Abstract
IN the general advance of scientific knowledge which has taken place during the last half-century, the science of acoustics has hardly received its fair share of attention. Founded on principles originated by the ancients, and afterwards extended by Galileo, Newton, Taylor, Sauveur, Bernouilli, Euler, Smith, Young, and others, the first great and complete work on it was “Die Akustik,” of Chladni, published in Germany in 1802, but which is chiefly known by its French translation.
On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music.
By Hermann F. Helmholtz Translated with the author's sanction by Alex. J. Ellis, F.R.S., &c. (London: Longmans and Co., 1875)
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On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music . Nature 12, 449–452 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012449a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/012449a0
