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Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a four-volume set of primary sources which seeks to define our historical understanding of the relationship between British scientific knowledge and sound between 1815 and 1900. In the context of rapid urbanization and industrialization, as well as a growing overseas empire, Britain was home to a rich scientific culture in which the ear was as valuable an organ as the eye for examining nature. Experiments on how sound behaved informed new understandings of how a diverse array of natural phenomena operated, notably those of heat, light, and electro-magnetism. In nineteenth-century Britain, sound was not just a phenomenon to be studied, but central to the practice of science itself and broader understandings over nature and the universe. This collection, accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Science.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1 Experiments for Ascertaining the Velocity of Sound, at Madras in the East Indies
- 2 On Captain Parry’s and Lieutenant Foster’s Experiments on the Velocity of Sound
- 3 Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions, during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833
- 4 On the Methods Adopted to Secure Extreme Accuracy in the Edinburgh Castle Time-Gun Signal
- 5 An Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Sound
- 6 On the Atmosphere as a Vehicle of Sound
- 7 Observations on the Design for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane: As Executed in the Year 1812: Accompanied by Plans, Elevation, & Sections, of the Same
- 8 Description of a Sounding Board in Attercliffe Church
- 9 Elementary Considerations of Some Principles in the Construction of Buildings Designed to Accommodate Spectators and Auditors
- 10 “Communication of Sound”, Illustrations of the Theory and Practice of Ventilation, with remarks on warming, exclusive lighting, and the communication of sound
- 11 The Acoustics of Public Buildings; or, the Principles of the Science of Sound Applied to the Purposes of the Architect and Builder
- 12 An Imperial Pitchfork
- 13 English Committee on Musical Pitch
- 14 Uniform Musical Pitch
- 15 Uniform Musical Pitch. Minutes of a Meeting of Musicians, Amateurs, and others Interested in Music, Held at the House of the Society of Arts, when the Report of the Committee Appointed by the Council of the Society was Received and Adopted
- 16 On the Beats of Imperfect Consonances
- 17 Musical Pitch
- 18 Orchestral Tuning
- 19 The History of Musical Pitch
- 20 On Musical Scales
- 21 Explanation of the Musical Scale and its Component Intervals
- Bibliography
- Index