User:Filll/FatherofAcoustics
The Father of Acoustics is a title that has been bestowed on several different scientists and engineers. However, there are many other people who are recognized to have contributed to the science of acoustics, including Newton, Euler, Lagrange, Laplace, Poisson, George Green, Stokes, Kirchoff, and Rayleigh.[1]
- Ernst Chladni (1756–1827),[2]
German lawyer, musician and physicist
- Marin Mersenne (1588-1648).[3][1][4]
French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist
- Hermann von Helmholtz (1821 – 1894),[5][6]
German physician and physicist
- Joseph Sauveur (1653-1716) [7]
French mathematician and physicist
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- Wallace Clement Sabine (1868 - 1919)
References[edit]
- ^ a b Acoustics, Allan D. Pierce and Yves H. Berthelot, Chapter 13.2 in Eshbach's Handbook of Engineering Fundamentals, Byron D. Tapley, Ovid Wallace Eshbach, Thurman R. Poston, Wiley-IEEE, 1990, ISBN 0471890847
- ^ A History of Physics in Its Elementary Branches: Including the Evolution of Physical Laboratories, Florian Cajori, Macmillan & co., Ltd, 1899
- ^ The Wave Theory of Sound: Excerpts from Chapter 1 of Acoustics: An Introduction to Its Physical Principles and Applications, Allan D. Pierce, Acoustical Society of America, 1989, ISBN 0883186128
- ^ Sound and Music, John Augustine Zahm, A.C. McClurg and company, 1892.
- ^ 7. What are wave shapes and spectral content, Chapter One: An Acoustics Primer, Introduction to Computer Music: Volume One, Jeffrey Hass, Centre for Electronic and Computer Music, Indiana University, 2005.
- ^ "A-NATURAL" ATONALITY: The False "Science" of Modern Atonal Music, Robert Fink, No. 196 Winter 2004, Greenwich Publ. Saskatoon, Sask, ISSN 0704-6588
- ^ Music and the French Enlightenment: Reconstruction of a Dialogue, 1750- 1764, by Cynthia Verba, reviewed by Joel Lester, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Mar., 1995), pp. 156-159
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