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Author : Sir Charles Wheatstone
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Scientific Papers of Sir Charles Wheatstone written by Sir Charles Wheatstone and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Wheatstone
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Scientific Papers of Sir Charles Wheatstone written by Charles Wheatstone and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Wheatstone
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Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (468 download)
Download or read book The Scientific Papers of Sir Charles Wheatstone written by Charles Wheatstone and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Charles Wheatstone
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781340805807
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (58 download)
Download or read book The Scientific Papers of Sir Charles Wheatstone written by Sir Charles Wheatstone and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : J. Q. Davies
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022640210X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Sound Knowledge written by J. Q. Davies and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to hear scientifically? What does it mean to see musically? This volume uncovers a new side to the long nineteenth century in London, a hidden history in which virtuosic musical entertainment and scientific discovery intersected in remarkable ways. Sound Knowledge examines how scientific truth was accrued by means of visual and aural experience, and, in turn, how musical knowledge was located in relation to empirical scientific practice. James Q. Davies and Ellen Lockhart gather work by leading scholars to explore a crucial sixty-year period, beginning with Charles Burney’s ambitious General History of Music, a four-volume study of music around the globe, and extending to the Great Exhibition of 1851, where musical instruments were assembled alongside the technologies of science and industry in the immense glass-encased collections of the Crystal Palace. Importantly, as the contributions show, both the power of science and the power of music relied on performance, spectacle, and experiment. Ultimately, this volume sets the stage for a new picture of modern disciplinarity, shining light on an era before the division of aural and visual knowledge.
Author : Brian Bowers
Publisher : IET
ISBN 13 : 9780852961032
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS written by Brian Bowers and published by IET. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Charles Wheatstone and the role he played in the early years of electrical engineering, particularly the electric telegraph. Published to celebrate the bicentennial of Wheatstone's birthday, the second edition expands information about the family business and the concertina he invented, and draws on letters exchanged with Cooke and Faraday. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Gascia Ouzounian
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026236123X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Stereophonica written by Gascia Ouzounian and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Episodes in the transformation of our understanding of sound and space, from binaural listening in the nineteenth century to contemporary sound art. The relationship between sound and space has become central to both creative practices in music and sound art and contemporary scholarship on sound. Entire subfields have emerged in connection to the spatial aspects of sound, from spatial audio and sound installation to acoustic ecology and soundscape studies. But how did our understanding of sound become spatial? In Stereophonica, Gascia Ouzounian examines a series of historical episodes that transformed ideas of sound and space, from the advent of stereo technologies in the nineteenth century to visual representations of sonic environments today. Developing a uniquely interdisciplinary perspective, Ouzounian draws on both the history of science and technology and the history of music and sound art. She investigates the binaural apparatus that allowed nineteenth-century listeners to observe sound in three dimensions; examines the development of military technologies for sound location during World War I; revisits experiments in stereo sound at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the 1930s; and considers the creation of "optimized acoustical environments" for theaters and factories. She explores the development of multichannel "spatial music" in the 1950s and sound installation art in the 1960s; analyzes the mapping of soundscapes; and investigates contemporary approaches to sonic urbanism, sonic practices that reimagine urban environments through sound. Rich in detail but accessible and engaging, and generously illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps, and diagrams of devices and artworks, Stereophonica brings an acute, imaginative, and much-needed historical sensibility to the growing literature around sound and space.
Author : Edward J. Gillin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022680917X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Sound Authorities written by Edward J. Gillin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sound Authorities shows how experiences of music and sound played a crucial role in nineteenth-century scientific inquiry in Britain. In Sound Authorities, Edward J. Gillin focuses on hearing and aurality in Victorian Britain, claiming that the development of the natural sciences in this era cannot be understood without attending to the study of sound and music. During this time, scientific practitioners attempted to fashion themselves as authorities on sonorous phenomena, coming into conflict with traditional musical elites as well as religious bodies. Gillin pays attention to sound in both musical and nonmusical contexts, specifically the cacophony of British industrialization. Sound Authorities begins with the place of acoustics in early nineteenth-century London, examining scientific exhibitions, lectures, spectacles, workshops, laboratories, and showrooms. He goes on to explore how mathematicians mobilized sound in their understanding of natural laws and their vision of a harmonious ordered universe. In closing, Gillin delves into the era’s religious and metaphysical debates over the place of music (and humanity) in nature, the relationship between music and the divine, and the tensions between spiritualist understandings of sound and scientific ones.
Author : Thomas L. Hankins
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400864119
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Instruments and the Imagination written by Thomas L. Hankins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to science--magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the movements of sunflower seeds, magic lanterns, ocular harpsichords (machines that played different colored lights in harmonious mixtures), Aeolian harps (a form of wind chime), and other instruments of "natural magic" designed to produce wondrous effects. By looking at these and the first recording instruments, the stereoscope, and speaking machines, the authors show that "scientific instruments" first made their appearance as devices used to evoke wonder in the beholder, as in works of magic and the theater. The authors also demonstrate that these instruments, even though they were often "tricks," were seen by their inventors as more than trickery. In the view of Athanasius Kircher, for instance, the sunflower clock was not merely a hoax, but an effort to demonstrate, however fraudulently, his truly held belief that the ability of a flower to follow the sun was due to the same cosmic magnetic influence as that which moved the planets and caused the rotation of the earth. The marvels revealed in this work raise and answer questions about the connections between natural science and natural magic, the meaning of demonstration, the role of language and the senses in science, and the connections among art, music, literature, and natural science. Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Joseph Stratford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Gloucestershire Biographical Notes written by Joseph Stratford and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Lastra
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231505469
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Sound Technology and the American Cinema written by James Lastra and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Since the nineteenth century, these technologies have challenged our trust of sensory perception, given the ephemeral unprecedented parity with the eternal, and created profound temporal and spatial displacements. But current approaches to representational and cultural history often neglect to examine these technologies. James Lastra seeks to remedy this neglect. Lastra argues that we are nowhere better able to track the relations between capital, science, and cultural practice than in photography, phonography, and the cinema. In particular, he maps the development of sound recording from its emergence to its confrontation with and integration into the Hollywood film. Reaching back into the late eighteenth century, to natural philosophy, stenography, automata, and human physiology, Lastra follows the shifting relationships between our senses, technology, and representation.
Author : David Trippett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107111250
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination written by David Trippett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.
Author : Edward J. Gillin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003805213
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Edward J. Gillin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sound and Science 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.
Author : Nick Jones
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550715
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Spaces Mapped and Monstrous written by Nick Jones and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital 3D has become a core feature of the twenty-first-century visual landscape. Yet 3D cinema is a contradictory media form: producing spaces that are highly regimented and exhaustively detailed, it simultaneously relies upon distortions of vision and space that are inherently strange. Spaces Mapped and Monstrous explores the paradoxical nature of 3D cinema to offer a critical analysis of an inescapable part of contemporary culture. Considering 3D’s distinctive visual qualities and its connections to wider digital systems, Nick Jones situates the production and exhibition of 3D cinema within a web of aesthetic, technological, and historical contexts. He examines 3D’s relationship with computer interfaces, virtual reality, and digital networks as well as tracing its lineage to predigital models of visual organization. Jones emphasizes that 3D is not only a technology used in films but also a tool for producing, controlling, and distorting space within systems of surveillance, corporatization, and militarization. The book features detailed analysis of a wide range of films—including Avatar (2009), Goodbye to Language (2014), Love (2015), and Clash of the Titans (2010)—demonstrating that 3D is not merely an augmentation of 2D cinema but that it has its own unique properties. Spaces Mapped and Monstrous brings together media archaeology, digital theory, and textual analysis to provide a new account of the importance of 3D to visual culture today.
Author : Jay Clayton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195347739
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Charles Dickens in Cyberspace written by Jay Clayton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens in Cyberspace opens a window on a startling set of literary and scientific links between contemporary American culture and the nineteenth-century heritage it often repudiates. Surveying a wide range of novelists, scientists, filmmakers, and theorists from the past two centuries, Jay Clayton traces the concealed circuits that connect the telegraph with the Internet, Charles Babbage's Difference Engine with the digital computer, Frankenstein's monster with cyborgs and clones, and Dickens' life and fiction with all manner of contemporary popular culture--from comic books and advertising to recent novels and films. In the process, Clayton argues for two important principles: that postmodernism has a hidden or repressed connection with the nineteenth-century and that revealing those connections can aid in the development of a historical cultural studies. In Charles Dickens in Cyberspace nineteenth-century figures--Jane Austen, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Ada Lovelace, Joseph Paxton, Mary Shelley, and Mary Somerville--meet a lively group of counterparts from today: Andrea Barrett, Greg Bear, Peter Carey, Hélène Cixous, Alfonso Cuarón, William Gibson, Donna Haraway, David Lean, Richard Powers, Salman Rushdie, Ridley Scott, Susan Sontag, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, and Tom Stoppard. The juxtaposition of such a diverse cast of characters leads to a new way of understanding the "undisciplined culture" the two eras share, an understanding that can suggest ways to heal the gap that has long separated literature from science. Combining storytelling and scholarship, this engaging study demonstrates in its own practice the value of a self-reflective stance toward cultural history. Its personal voice, narrative strategies, multiple points of view, recursive loops, and irony emphasize the improvisational nature of the methods it employs. Yet its argument is serious and urgent: that the afterlife of the nineteenth century continues to shape the present in diverse and sometimes conflicting ways.
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Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Crookes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science written by William Crookes and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
