Athanasii Kircheri ... Phonurgia nova sive conjugium mechanico-physicum artis et natvrae paranympha phonosophia concinnatum. Quâ universa sonorum natura, proprietas, vires effectuúmq prodigiosorum causœ, novâ & multiplici experimentorum exhibitione enucleantur; instrumentorum acusticorum, machinarúmq ad naturœ prototypon adaptandarum, tum ad sonos ad remotissima spatia propagandos, tum in abditis domorum recessibus per occultioris ingenii machinamenta clam palámve sermocinandi modus & ratio traditur, tum denique in bellorum tumultibus singularis hujusmodi organorum usus, & praxis per novam phonologiam describitur / [Athanasius Kircher].

xv, 464 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Sound / by John Tyndall.

8 unnumbered leaves, 330 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf : diagrams ; (4to)

Del svono de' tremori armonici e dell'vdito / trattati del P. Daniello Bartoli.

Sonic warfare : sound, affect, and the ecology of fear / Steve Goodman.

Le son et la musique / par P. Blaserna ; suivis des Causes physiologiques de l'harmonie musicale par H. Helmholtz.

xix, 576 pages : illustrations, music ; 27 cm

On the sensations of tone as a physiological basis for the theory of music / by Hermann L.F. Helmholtz ; translated, thoroughly revised and corrected, rendered conformable to the 4th (and last) German edition of 1877, with numerous additional notes and a new additional appendix bringing down information to 1885, and especially adapted to the use of musical students, by Alexander J. Ellis.

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Sound / by John Tyndall.

Del svono de' tremori armonici e dell'vdito / trattati del P. Daniello Bartoli.

Sonic warfare : sound, affect, and the ecology of fear / Steve Goodman.

Le son et la musique / par P. Blaserna ; suivis des Causes physiologiques de l'harmonie musicale par H. Helmholtz.

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Sound / by John Tyndall.

Del svono de' tremori armonici e dell'vdito / trattati del P. Daniello Bartoli.

Sonic warfare : sound, affect, and the ecology of fear / Steve Goodman.

Le son et la musique / par P. Blaserna ; suivis des Causes physiologiques de l'harmonie musicale par H. Helmholtz.

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