This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. Let Us now first of all discuss the subject of sound and hearing. Sound is twofold. It is one thing in actuality, and another in potentiality. Some things, we say, are incapable of sound, such as a sponge or wool, others are resonant, such as bronze and bodies that are hard and smooth, because ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. Let Us now first of all discuss the subject of sound and hearing. Sound is twofold. It is one thing in actuality, and another in potentiality. Some things, we say, are incapable of sound, such as a sponge or wool, others are resonant, such as bronze and bodies that are hard and smooth, because they can emit sound; that is, they have the power to create an actual sound through mediation 2 between the resonant object and the hearing. The actual sound is always produced by something in reference to something and in a medium.1 A blow is the producing cause. It is, therefore, impossible for an object, taken alone, to produce a sound, for the striking agent and the struck object are different. Thus the sonorous body produces sound by its relation to another body. A blow is 3 impossible without movement, and, as we have said, sound does not result from a blow upon any haphazard object. Wool, e.g. when struck produces no sound, but bronze 1 Theophr&stua and the peripatetic commentators introduced the term Jitjxs to describe the medium of sound and Slarnov to describe the medium of smell. Cf. Themistius, ed. Spengel, p. 115. Simplicius Comment in lib. De an., 419a 32. Philoponus Comment in lib. De an. (Ed. Acad. Reg. Bor.), 355. 14. and whatever is hard and smooth do. Bronze is resonant because it is smooth. Hollow bodies, by reverberation, produce many reports after the first one, because the air, when it is once set in motion, can find no egress. 4 Furthermore, audition takes place in air and water, but to a less degree in the latter. But neither air nor water is the main thing in the case of sound. The percussion of solid bodies against each other and against the air must take place, and this takes place when the smitten 5 air resists...
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Good. 1902. Cloth. 8vo. lxxxvi & 339 pp. Presentation copy (author's inscription to half-title page). Spine lightly sunned. Wrinkling near spine on back board. Some shelf wear to cloth as well. Both hinges starting. Noticeable foxing to endpapers and text block. Previous owner's inscription to half-title page. Overall in good condition. (Subject: Ancient, Philosophy. )
